Barber v. State

MORROW, Presiding Judge.

Theft of an automobile is the offense; penalty assessed at confinement in the penitentiary for seven years.

A synopsis of the evidence is as follows: Rutter, the alleged injured party, owned a Chevrolet automobile. He parked it on *533one of the streets of Houston. When he returned about an hour or two later he found his car missing. Later in the same night, he obtained it from the police department of the city of Houston. During the night before the car was recovered, the witness Land, while in his residence, observed a Chevrolet and a Ford automobile on the street. The…