White v. State

DAVIDSON, Presiding Judge.

Appellant was convicted of theft, from the person, his punishment being assessed .at two years confinement in the penitentiary.

The indictment, omitting formal parts, charges that appellant “did then and there unlawfully and fraudulently and privately take from the possession of the person pf Scott Wilson one watch, the same being the corporeal personal property of the said Scott Wilson, without the consent and without the knowledge of the said Scott Wilson and with the intent to deprive,” etc. Motion was made to quash the indictment because it did not charge that the…