Leforis v. State

HAWKINS, Presiding Judge.

Conviction is for theft of an automobile, punishment assessed at three years in the penitentiary.

No bills of exception are brought forward.

About nine o’clock on the night of February 27th, 1940, M. E. Rawlins parked his car near the Episcopal Church in Dallas, from which place it was stolen. In the car at the time it was taken were a number of carpenter’s tools, and a rope and chain hoist. The owner testified that he recovered his car “piece by piece.” The chassis of the car was found the next day, — February 28th — near the Atlas Metal Works, about a mile and a half…