Walden v. State

MORRISON, Presiding Judge.

The offense is felony theft; the punishment, 2% years.

The sole question presented is the sufficiency of the evidence to support the conviction.

The witness Batson testified that on or about the date charged in the indictment a set of B type B J pipe tongs which he valued at $2500 were stolen from a drilling rig which he was operating in Grayson County and were later returned to him from Wichita Falls. He testified that when he bought the tongs as a part of a rig they were painted Bethlehem yellow, that one of the handles was broken and he had a man mend the break by…