Givens v. State

DAVIDSON, Judge.

This is a case of theft by false pretext of personal property under the value of $50.00 and over the value of $5.00; the punishment assessed being confinement in the county jail for a year and a day.

The information charged appellant with theft of a watch of the value of $35.00 and a billfold of the value of $5.00, from Monroe Ray.

According to the State’s case, the injured party was induced, by false pretext, to deliver into appellant’s possession a watch and a billfold, which he thereafter converted to his own use.

The pivotal question presented relates to proof of the value bf…