Thomas v. State

DAVIDSON, Presiding Judge.

Appellant was convicted of theft and given fifteen days in jail and fined five hundred dollars.

The indictment contained three counts. Upon the second count the trial occurred, this being alone submitted to the jury for their consideration. It alleged the theft of fifteen bottles of whisky, being the property of G. E. Reynolds and taken from the possession of G. E. Reynolds.

The evidence discloses that G. E. Reynolds and five others had bought several eases of whisky at San Angelo about the time prohibition went into effect under the zone law. They carried it to the…