Hoyt v. State

LATTIMORE, Judge.

Appellant was convicted in the County Court1 of Nacogdoches County of receiving stolen property of value less than fifty dollars and his punishment fixed at thirty days in the County jail and a fine of one hundred dollars.

Appellant received the property in question from one, Joe Blount, who was alleged to have acquired same by theft. The State, proved a confession made by Blount, part of which is as follows: “Joe Blount told me, among other things, that he had stolen, about the 15th of February, 1920, a pair of shoes and two suits of underwear from Tucker-Hayter & Company,…