Porter v. State

KRUEGER, Judge.

Appellant was convicted of the offense of theft of property over the value of fifty dollars, and his punishment was assessed at confinement in the state penitentiary for a term of two years.

Appellant presents a great number of bills of exception and objections to the court’s charge. We will discuss only those which appellant most earnestly contends reflect reversible error.

By bills of exception numbers one and two appellant complains of the action of the trial court in declining to instruct the jury to return a verdict of not guilty on the ground that there was no evidence that…