Salinas v. State

KRUEGER, Judge.

The conviction is for the offense of theft from the person. The punishment assessed is confinement in the State penitentiary for a period of seven years.

The indictment alleges that the appellant and one, Paul R. Gonzales, did “unlawfully, fraudulently and privately take from the possession and person of Frederick W. Eberlein, a wrist watch of the value of $25.00,” to which charge the appellant entered a plea of guilty.

Eberlein, the alleged injured party, testified that on February 20, 1943, he was in the City of San Antonio, to which place he had come from Scheel, Texas, where…