Coleman v. State

HARPER, Judge.

— Appellant was prosecuted and convicted of theft, and his punishment assessed at two years confinement in the penitentiary.

When appellant was arrested something over $200 was taken off his person, as was also a cloth bag or sack. The officer making the arrest testified to taking the property off of appellant. The prosecuting witness positively identified the sack as the one in which he kept the money when it was stolen, among other things being able to identify it by the way it was sewed, and its being stitched, where mended, with both white and black thread; he also testified…