Pigg v. State

MORRISON, Presiding Judge.

The offense is felony theft: the punishment, 2 years.

A practically new 1955 Mercury automobile was taken from the home of its owner on the night charged in the indictment and recovered by the city marshal the following morning where it had been abandoned on a dirt road some three miles away. The radio and sun visors were gone, and in the words of the injured party, “anything that could be taken off was taken off.”

One Martin testified for the state that he and the appellant pushed the Mercury automobile away from the home of the owner with the automobile that he was…