Williams v. State

LATTIMORE, Judge.

Appellant was convicted in the District Court of Rockwall County óf felony theft, and his punishment fixed at three years in the penitentiary.

The indictment charged theft of 78 chickens. The owner swore to the loss of 89 chickens on the night of the alleged theft, and said they were taken from his chicken house in Rockwall County. Forty of said stolen birds were recovered the next day in Dallas in a produce house, and an employe of the house said he had been dressing chickens out of the same load brought in that morning and had dressed a number with bands on their wings, etc.…