Crye v. State

BELCHER, Commissioner.

The conviction is for felony theft; the punishment, five years.

The evidence reveals that the construction of a dam for a lake made it necessary for a railroad company maintaining tracks within the area to abandon and re-locate a portion of its tracks, including a four span bridge.

While testifying, George Shillings identified the appellant as the person who engaged him to haul some steel beams from a railroad bridge, and stated that at first he was unable to load them because they were wedged between the abutments of the bridge but after the appellant cut the beams he…