Adams v. State

HAWKINS, Judge.

Conviction is for theft of property over fifty dollars in value, punishment assessed being two years in the penitentiary.

On July 28, 1938, Allen Hatchett was working at an excavation project in Abilene. He had in his pocket-book $77.00 which he left in his trousers pocket when he changed into his work clothes. The money was gone when he quit work. Hatchett was in the habit of making a note of the serial number of the bills which came into his possession, and had made a memorandum on the back of an envelope of the serial numbers of his bills up to the amount of $63.00. He…