Johnson v. State

MORRISON, Presiding Judge.

The offense is felony theft; the punishment, five years.

A portion of appellant’s confession was introduced in evidence by the state, and the appellant introduced the remainder. It appears therefrom that the appellant, in company with one Taylor and one Malone, took an automobile from Brownsville across the river to Matamoras where they attempted to sell it to a man who had some time before told the appellant that he might dispose of stolen automobiles, but were apprehended by the Matamoras police. That portion which was introduced by the appellant stated that after…