MacKey v. State

KRUEGER, Judge. —

Appellant was convicted of the offense of stealing an automobile of the value of $500.00, and his punishment was assessed at confinement in the state penitentiary for a term of two years.

The State’s testimony shows that on the night of March 1, 1935, appellant and Merline Rogers took Tom Price’s car while it was parked on the streets of the town of Albany in Shackelford County and drove away towards Moran. On the way they stopped at Sedgewick and purchased some gasoline from T. L. Haggard. They did not go into or through Moran, but purposely passed around it. Before reaching…