Isaac v. State

WOODLEY, Judge.

The conviction is for felony theft; the punishment two years in the penitentiary.

Will West, a tenant farmer, testified that on Monday, September 17, 1951, he left two piles of seed cotton in his field, about 100 yards from his house. One pile of the cotton was picked that day and weighed 349 pounds. The other pile, some four feet away, was wet cotton which had been picked the previous week and had been spread to dry. The wet cotton had not been weighed.

When West went to his field the next morning both piles of cotton were gone.

West testified that the appellant came out to his…