King v. State

BELCHER, Judge.

The conviction is for felony theft; the punishment, two years in the penitentiary.

The indictment containing only one count is in the form ordinarily used in charging theft of property in general. Willson’s Criminal Forms, 6th Ed., Sec. 1970. See also, Gibbs v. State, 158, Texas Cr. Rep. 145, 253 S.W. 2d 1002.

*433The state’s evidence shows that the appellant obtained the possession fo $30.00 in money and merchandise of the value of $30.95 from Audrey Karraker, sole owner and operator of a ready to wear store, for which he gave her a draft that he wrote in her presence, dated…