Meredith v. State

LATTIMORE, Judge.

Conviction for theft of property of the value of more than fifty dollars; punishment, two years in the penitentiary.

A negro woman cooked for a family and lived with her husband in a servant’s house adjoining the alley in the back yard. Appellant occasionally cut the grass in said yard and knew said woman and her husband. He was charged in this case with theft on November 23rd, 1928, of two rings from said woman. In developing its case the State proved that on October 16, 1928, Jack Sowell, the woman mentioned, missed her rings one night, was phoned to come to the jail the…