Roberts v. State

LATTIMORE, Judge.

—Appellant was convicted in the County Court of Briscoe County of the offense of misdemeanor theft, and his punishment fixed at thirty days in the county jail.

John Burson lost some oats. Said oats were trailed toward the town of Lockney in an adjoining county, and it was discovered that appellant had sold a load of oats to a grain elevator in Lockney on that day. His wagon bed had oats in it. The officers found the appellant in a restaurant. The sheriff asked him a number of questions, which with their answers were objected to by the appellant upon the ground that he was then…