Smith v. State

KRUEGER, JUDGE.

The appellant was tried and convicted of the offense of theft of property over the value of $50.00, and his punishment assessed at confinement in the state penitentiary for a term of 3 years.

The facts as established upon the trial by accomplice witnesses are substantially as follows: On the night of the last Saturday in January, 1933, William Frith, Cecil Suggs, Carl Alley, Hilliard Boyd, and the appellant went in the appellant’s car to a dance at Perkins’ in West Vernon, Texas. The said five left the dance about 12 o’clock, drove around town for a while, let Hilliard Boyd out…