Square v. State

BEAUCHAMP, Judge.

Appellant was convicted in the district court of Smith County upon a charge of theft of $202.00 and, upon allegations in the indictment of two prior convictions of offenses of a grade of felony less than capital, the court assessed his punishment at ninety-nine years in the penitentiary.

The indictment in the case alleges the commission of the offense for which he was being tried in Smith County as of July 6, 1940. On a second count it alleges that prior thereto and on the 23rd day of December, 1924, the appellant was convicted in Dallas County of a felony, to-wit, “The felony…