Decker v. State

HAWKINS, Judge.

Conviction is for theft, punishment assessed at fifteen days in the county jail. By an ordinary indictment for theft appellant is alleged to have taken a riding planter from the possession of D. H. Hardy, in January, 1934.

Appellant had been a tenant on a farm of Hardy for two years. Under the rent contract Hardy furnished appellant with teams and farming tools. Before coming to Hardy’s place appellant had lived in Madison' County and Hardy moved him from his former home to the farm in Walker County. Appellant had the planter in question when he moved to the Hardy place.…