Roberts v. State

OPINION

JACKSON, Commissioner.

The convictions were for felony theft; the punishment in each case, four (4) years. 1

On August 25, 1972, while on routine patrol, Captain Leroy Schneider of the Se-guin Police Department came upon appellants at approximately midnight back of the Peppertree Motel in Seguin. Appellants were loading chain from the rack of a truck cab into the back seat of appellant Roberts’ father’s car. Officer Schneider arrested appellants, then summoned Ernest Rosales, the driver of the truck, from his room in the motel. Rosales identified the chains in the back seat of the car as…