Vaughn v. State

GRAVES, Judge.

Appellant was charged with auto theft, and by the jury assessed a penalty of eight years in the State prison.

The facts found in the record show that S. W. Davis of El Paso, Texas, lost his maroon colored new- Plymouth coupe automobile by theft on January 29, 1941; that on February 1, 1941, appellant appeared at the filling station of Mr. King in Dallas, Texas, and requested King to change some tires on a certain automobile. King sent a negro boy in a truck with appellant to a location a few blocks away to effect the change. The appellant directed the negro to a place back of the…