Martindale v. State

BELCHER, Judge.

Appellant was jointly indicted with William Shatto for the theft of ten joints of tubing and thirty-three sucker rods of the value of more than fifty dollars from H. T. Hensley. A motion for severance was granted, and William Shatto was tried first and found not guilty by a jury, and appellant, after a plea of not guilty, was found guilty by a jury and assessed a term of two years in the penitentiary.

After dark on the night of December 17, 1951, while appellant and William Shatto were travelling in a 1939 Ford automobile pulling a trailer loaded with ten joints of tubing and…