Jones v. State

CALHOUN, Judge.

The offense is theft; the punishment, 2 years in the penitentiary.

It seems from the testimony that the Shreveport, Houston & Gulf Railroad Company operates between Manning and Huntington, Texas. At the time of the alleged offense, the sum of $1600.00 was being forwarded from Lufkin to Manning, which is designated in the record as the Manning payroll. When the train stopped at Prestige, the car containing the money box in which the $1600 was placed was left on a wye, and, owing to a great deal of switching, it was left there for some 20 or 25 minutes unattended. Upon arriving at…