Metaxes v. State

CHRISTIAN, Judge.

The offense is receiving and concealing stolen property; the punishment, confinement in the penitentiary for two years.

Phil Werner, president and manager of South Texas Candy Company, a corporation engaged in the business of selling candy and cigars, testified that the company’s store was burglarized on the 2nd of August, 1933, and cigars and chewing gum of more than $50 in value taken therefrom. In his investigation of the burglary, an officer arrested appellant. Pursuant to statements made to him by appellant the officer recovered approximately $80 worth of the stolen…