Charles v. State

Appellant was convicted of theft of property of the value of more than $50, in the Thirty-Seventh district court at San Antonio, and his punishment fixed at two years’ confinement in the penitentiary.

Complaint is made of the fact that the evidence is insufficient to support the verdict. The property taken was $85 in money, which, at the time it was lost, was in a small purse, and this in turn was in a handkerchief, all being in the hip pocket of the owner, one Mr. Cook, who, -at the time of the alleged theft in September, 1917, was selling gasoline in San Antonio. On the occasion in question…