Williams v. State

BELCHER, Judge.

Appellant was tried before the court without a jury for the offense of misdemeanor theft and, upon conviction, his punishment was assessed at thirty days in jail.

The complaint and information alleged that appellant unlawfully took “$40.00 in U.S. Currency” from C. L. Walker in Dallas County, Texas.

C. L. Walker testified that he had his billfold containing between forty and forty-five dollars in money about 8:30 P.M. on July 12, 1953, while travelling on a train from Houston to Dallas; that he later missed his billfold and was unable to find it. He identified a billfold at the…