Jowers v. State

BEAUCHAMP, Judge.

Appellant was given a penitentiary sentence of two years in Kleberg County on a charge of receiving and concealing stolen property of the value of more than $50.00.

The property involved consists of seventeen joints of oil well pipe. It is shown by the record that this amount of second hand pipe had been stolen from Humble Oil & Refining Company after it had been pulled from an abandoned oil well and stacked on the lease with fifty one other joints of the same kind and character of pipe. It is alleged in the second count of the indictment that the appellant unlawfully and…