Grego v. State

OPINION

DOUGLAS, Judge.

The conviction is for theft of property over the value of $50.00; the punishment, five years.

A container filled with oxygen of the value of $59.50 was stolen from Val Blake, who operated a salvage yard near Vernon. Testimony concerning the arrest and search was given by Pat King, a highway patrolman of the Texas Department of Public Safety. At approximately nine-thirty o’clock at night, Patrolman King saw an automobile without lights come out of a private driveway at Blake’s Salvage Yard. The lights were not turned on until after the automobile had traveled some one…