Hart v. State

This is an appeal from a judgment of conviction for the crime of tapping a pipe line, pronounced and entered July 27, 1935, in conformity with the verdict of the jury finding the defendant, Jess Hart, guilty of tapping a pipe line and assessing his punishment at imprisonment in the penitentiary for a term of four years. The statute under which the conviction was had is section 2274 of the Penal Code, which reads as follows:

“Any person who shall unlawfully mate or cause to be made any connection with or in any way tap or cause to be tapped, or drill or cause to be drilled a hole in any pipe or…