Sparks v. State

HARPER, Judge.

Appellant was prosecuted for theft of an automobile, of value exceeding one thousand dollars, and his punishment assessed at two years confinement in the penitentiary.

The facts clearly justified the jury in finding that appellant was guilty of the theft of the automobile, and the sole question we deem it necessary to discuss (which is raised in several different ways) is theft of an automobile of value in excess of $50 a felony, as is the theft of other personal property, or has the Legislature by section 1 of chapter 100 of the Acts of the Thirty-third Legislature singled out…