Snow v. State

BEAUCHAMP, Judge.

The appellant was convicted in the District Court of Waller County for the theft of cans of lubricating oil in excess of $50.00 in value and given four years in the State penitentiary.

C. S. Sorsby testified that he lived in Waller County, Texas, and was engaged as distributor for the Sinclair Refining Company; that he had some oil taken from his warehouse on the 2nd day of March, 1938; that it was “as many as thirty-two cases of Opalene oil and as many as twelve cases of Pennsylvania oil.” The oil was taken without his consent. The Opalene oil was valued at $3.70 per case and…