Smith v. State

PRENDERGAST, Judge.

The appellant was convicted of the theft of an automobile, and his punishment fixed at two years confinement in the penitentiary.

The evidence shows this, and only this, in effect: that on the night of May 30, 1911, the appellant, who is a negro, seventeen or eighteen years of age, and another negro, went to the automobile house of the owner, broke in and took therefrom his automobile; that they did so for the purpose of riding therein. After they took it out, a white man hired and paid them to haul himself and two women around the city of San Antonio, and about it, and paid…