Moore v. State

KRUEGER, Judge.

The offense is theft of property over the value of Fifty Dollars. The punishment assessed is confinement in the state penitentiary for a term of five years.

It appears from the record that about 7:00 p. m. of December 19, 1939, some one took from Mrs. Emmett Cox’s automobile while parked on a street in San Angelo a number of packages containing Christmas gifts which had been addressed to various persons and which she intended to carry to the post-office to be mailed. She had only been absent from the automobile a few minutes when she discovered that her property had been stolen.…