Avila v. State

HAWKINS, Judge.

Conviction' is for the theft of property over the value of fifty dollars, punishment being assessed at confinement in the penitentiary for two years.

The indictment contained two counts, one charged appellant as a principal in the theft, of property from L. H. Schronstein; the second count charged him with fraudulently receiving and concealing the property from one V. Carlin, knowing it to have been theretofore stolen. The first count only was submitted to the jury. Schronstein was a merchant in the city of Galveston. Two suits of clothing were stolen from his store, aggregating…