Dean v. State

KRUEGER, Judge.

The offense is theft of corporeal personal property over the value of $50.00. The punishment assessed is confinement in the State penitentiary for a term of two years.

The only question presented for review is the sufficiency of the evidence to justify and sustain the conviction.

The State’s evidence, briefly stated, shows that on the 23rd day of December, 1940, G. T. Barnett, his wife and son who lived at Houston, Texas, came in an automobile to Memphis to visit S. W. Stewart and family. They arrived at Mr. Stewart’s home about dark and parked their car on the street in front of…