Duncan v. State

HENDERSON”, Judge.

Appellant was convicted of the theft of two bales of cotton, over the value of $50, and his punishment assessed at two years confinement in the penitentiary.

The indictment is in two counts; the first of which charges that appellant, “did then and there unlawfully and fraudulently take two bales of lint cotton of the value of $70, the same being the corporeal personal property of Register Brothers, a mercantile firm composed of H. Register and C. F. Register, from the possession of the said H. Register and C. F. Register, and from the possession of C. C. Matthews, who was…