Hogan v. State

GRAVES, Judge., Appellant, a youth 21 years of age, and crippled from infantile paralysis, received a suspended sentence for theft of an automobile on July 7, 1943, and was afterward indicted for theft of Mr. Virgil Furby’s Buick sedan on July 9, 1943, and upon this trial he was convicted by the jury and given a term of two years in the penitentiary, and from a judgment predicated • thereon he appeals.

The facts show that Mr. Furby parked his Buick car on a street in Beaumont sometime between 8 and 9 o’clock in the evening, on the date alleged, and later when he returned to where he had left…