Lewis v. State

HARPER, Judge.

—Appellant was convicted of theft, and his punishment assessed at three years confinement in the State penitentiary. The evidence in this case would show that Ida Childress was arrested in Harris County, charged with a misdemeanor alleged to have been committed in Hacogdoches, Texas. When she was so arrested she was in Harris County. As to who employed J. Vance Lewis to represent her is a disputed question. The State’s evidence is, that he was employed by a sister of Ida Childress, Annie Baxter, who says that he charged her a fee of ten dollars and she paid it to him.

Appellant’s…