Collier v. State

LATTIMORE, Judge.

Conviction for felony theft, punishment two years in the penitentiary.

The charge was theft of pipe. The proof showed that under the direction of, and by authority from appellant, truck drivers carried over $500 worth of oil pipe belonging to one McCurdy, to Breekenridge and put it in a pipe yard there. Appellant told several parties the pipe was his and that he wanted to sell it. He defended upon the proposition that one Meyers claimed to own the pipe, and that Meyers authorized him to take it and sell it upon a commission, and that it was with this in view that appellant had…