Yantis v. State

HAWKINS, Judge.

— Under an indictment charging him with the theft of an automobile from the possession of W. P. Wright in Palo Pinto County, Texas, on or about the 9th day of July, 1922, appellant was convicted and his punishment assessed at two years confinement in the penitentiary.

The court properly overruled appellant’s motion to quash the indictment. We observe no defects therein.

The trial which resulted in the present conviction was begun on October 26th, 1922. When the' ease was called appellant presented a plea of former jeopardy. He alleges therein that he had at a former day of the…