Segal v. State

MORROW, Presiding Judge.

— The appeal is from a conviction of the offense of theft; a felony; punishment fixed at confinement in the penitentiary for a period of three years.

Appellant was a merchant doing a jobbing business, and was a customer of a wholesale establishment. He had on various occasions purchased large amounts of goods from this wholesale dealer; had been extended credit for the amount of the purchases; and so far as the record reveals, these transactions had been mutually satisfactory. He entered the store and told Boggess, the employee who had the authority to authorize sales…