Modest v. State

HAWKINS, Judge.

Appellant was convicted for theft of a “steam boiler,” and his punishment assessed at three years confinement in the penitentiary.

There are no bills of exception in the record and the only question for us to determine is the sufficiency of the evidence to support the conviction. Prior to June 20th, 1922, the Atlantic Company had drilled an oil well about six miles from Crystal Fallís in Stephens County. The well had been abandoned. The drilling tools and some apparatus had been moved away, but the boiler and heavy timbers had been left. About June 20th the boiler was stolen,…