Stepp v. State

DAVIDSON, Presiding Judge.

Appellant was charged with and convicted of the theft of a hat, the property of Bruce Stevenson.

The witness Stevenson testifies he was on the west-hound train about 2 o’clock in the morning of March 12, 1907, lying hack iri a scat with his hat partially over Iris face, shading it from the light, resting, but not asleep. Just as the train pulled out of the station at Colorado some one ran through the coach from the front end, jerked his hat off his face, ran through the car, jumped off at the back end and ran around behind some freight cars that were standing near by.…