Wilson v. State

MORRISON, Presiding Judge.

The offense is theft by bailee; the punishment, three years.

The sufficiency of the evidence to sustain the jury’s finding that the meat in question was appropriated by the appellant so as to constitute the crime of theft is seriously challenged.

The witness Dawson was at the time in question en route to his home in Oklahoma in a pickup truck in which he was carrying 128 pounds'of frozen beef. He had motor trouble and decided to spend the night in the city of Dublin. Through the intervention of a filling station operator, Dawson secured permission from the appellant to…