Abney v. State

MORRISON, Presiding Judge.

The offense is felony theft; the punishment, 2 years.

Mrs. Maude Johnson, the mother of two small children and the wife of a Houston letter carrier, testified that she was ap*129proached by appellant on the street of that city on the day charged in the indictment, that appellant pointed out a man on the sidewalk whom she said had found a billfold containing money, and the two women approached him. She stated that the man offered to share the contents of the billfold with appellant and her, but required that they put up earnest money which he might show his boss. She…