Bell v. State

Appellant was tried and convicted under an information charging him with the theft of one bushel of corn, worth seventy cents, and his punishment was assessed at a fine of $10, together with imprisonment in the county jail for one month.

The facts of the case are that an agreement was entered into between Bell, the appellant, and one Tankersley, by which Bell was to become a renter or cropper upon land owned by Tankersley, each party to have one-half of the produce raised, when it was gathered, and the crop to be bound for advances made by Tankersley to Bell. Before the corn crop was gathered,…