Hammonds v. State

BAKER, Judge.

The appellant was convicted of felony theft, and his punishment assessed at two years in the penitentiary.

It was the contention of the state that the appellant rented a certain Ford automobile from one Joplin on the night of the alleged theft; that he thereafter broke into a house in the possession of and belonging to D. S. Sowell in the town of Cleburne and stole therefrom a number of automobile casings and tubes; that he transported these goods to a certain barn which he had rented from Clifford Morgan and in which he stored the stolen property; and that he was engaged in…