Cross v. State

LATTIMORE, Judge.

Appellant was convicted in the county court at law of El Paso county of misdemeanor theft, and his punishment fixed at a fine of $25.00 and ninety days in the county jail.

Appellant was charged by information and complaint with theft of a pistol of value less than fifty dollars, the complaint charging that appellant was the bailee by virtue of his contract of borrowing said the pistol. The State’s testimony showed that appellant borrowed the pistol for a specific purpose, and that he left El Paso a few months after that and at no time had returned or offered to-return said…