Martinez v. State

Gould, Associate Justice.

The appellant was indicted for theft of “one hundred and eighty-two dollars in United States currency,” the property of one H. S. Rock, the indictment giving no further description of the property stolen and no averment of its value.

There is evidence that the amount stolen in United States currency was taken from a bureau in Rock’s house, and that a twenty-dollar bill of the missing currency, together with other currency not identified, was found in possession of defendant. Defendant was a servant of Rock, and stated that he found the currency in his yard.

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