Moxie and Brackens v. State

BROOKS, Judge.

Appellants were tried on a charge of theft, and the punishment of each was- assessed at two years confinement in the penitentiary.

The facts, in substance, show that T. B. Nichols and his wife, after taking a ride in the city of Galveston in their own buggy and driving their own horse, brought the same back to' the Levy Bros, livery stable where they boarded their horse. After leaving this" livery stable, Mrs: Nichols discovered the absence of her pocketbook which contained one ring of the value of one thousand dollars, and sixty-four dollars in money, and one ruby ring. Her…