Patrick v. State

Appellant was indicted for the theft of six railroad tickets, was convicted, and his punishment assessed at three years confinement in the penitentiary; hence this appeal.

Motion was made to quash the indictment, the charging part of which is, as follows: * * * "did then and there unlawfully and fraudulently take from the possession of S.M. Gibson, six railroad tickets reading from Texarkana, Texas, to Kansas City, said tickets of the value of fourteen and 65-100 dollars each, and of the aggregate value of eighty-seven and 90-100 dollars, the same being the corporeal personal property of and…