Perez v. State

CHRISTIAN, Judge.

The offense is misdemeanor theft; the punishment, confinement in jail for one year.

Elmo Blake, a witness for the state, testified, in substance, as follows: He operated a Gulf filling station in Corpus Christi. On the 6th of September, 1933, he heard a noise in the filling station. Upon entering the room in which the cash register was located he discovered appellant in the act of taking the money out of the cash register and putting it in his pocket. He grabbed appellant and, holding him, made him empty one of his pockets of an amount of money approximating twenty-six…