McKnight v. State

Appellant was convicted of theft of property over the value of $50.00. His punishment was assessed at confinement in the State Penitentiary for a term of two years.

The record shows that during the night of August 23, 1937, appellant stole four tires, tubes, and rims, from the Airline Motor Coach Company, of which C. D. Thomas was manager and had exclusive possession at the time in question.

Immediately after the commission of the theft, appellant engaged one Travis Stille, a taxicab driver, to take him, along with the stolen property, to Houston, where he disposed of it to a dealer in…