Devault v. State

OPINION

DOUGLAS, Judge.

The conviction is for theft of edible meat; the punishment, four years.

The record reflects that appellant took some forty cases of precooked hams and twenty-five boxes of bacon from Samuel’s Packing Company in Dallas.

Appellant first contends that the evidence is insufficient to show that the hams were edible meat. Lester Hayes testified that he worked at the packing company, and that he saw appellant loading the hams and that they were edible. On cross-examination, he testified that he had not eaten any of the meat that was taken by appellant, but the meat on the dock…