Guidry v. State

DICE, Judge.

The conviction is for misdemeanor theft; the punishment, sixty days in jail.

The state’s testimony shows that two officers observed the appellant pick up a sack of grain in a railroad yard and carry it some fifty or sixty feet. Appellant was carrying the sack in the direction of his automobile and when he saw the officers he dropped it and ran. The sack was recovered by the officers and was found to contain about one hundred twenty-five pounds of wheat.

It was stipulated that Harry Thompson, the alleged owner of the grain, was in fact the owner, that the grain had a value of $6.00,…