George Hamilton v. State

KRUEGER, Judge.

The appellant was tried and convicted of the offense of theft of property over the value of fifty ($50.00) dollars, and his punishment was assessed at confinement in the state penitentiary for a term of three years.

Appellant’s only contention is that the testimony adduced by the State, which is wholly circumstantial, is insufficient to sustain his conviction. In order to determine this question we will briefly relate salient criminative facts upon which the State relied for conviction.

The testimony shows that on the night of December 31, 1934, soon after midnight someone…