Haines v. State

Conviction is for theft of property over the value of $50.00; punishment is assessed at confinement in the State Penitentiary for a term of three years.

The record shows that on or about the 20th day of May, 1937, appellant appeared at the office of L. W. Capps' Drilling and Construction Company in Houston, Texas, and engaged a truck and driver to haul some oil well pipe. He went with the truck to Wharton, arriving there some time after 1 A. M. He and the driver loaded 35 joints of 2-inch pipe which was stacked alongside a fence, took it to Luling, and appellant sold the same to the Jones…