Lingo v. State

CHRISTIAN, Judge.

— The offense is theft by' conversion of an automobile of more than fifty dollars; the punishment, confinement in the penitentiary for two years.

Appellant rented a Chevrolet roadster from R. J. Jeffers in Wichita Falls. Mr. Jeffers testified that under the contract he had with appellant the car was to be returned in three or four hours. Appellant carried the car to Hill County. There, according to appellant’s confession, Sam Wood and appellant chiseled the numbers off of the engine, removed the license numbers and threw them into a well and placed some license numbers taken…