Tullos v. State

Christian, Judge.

The offense is theft; the punishment, confinement in the penitentiary for two years.

Jim Tullos, Colonel Dodson and appellant were jointly indicted for the theft of twenty-four kegs of nails and fifteen rolls of screen wire, of the value of $150, from R. E. Horne. Appellant alone was placed upon trial. Mr. Horne testified, in substance, that he lost the property described in the indictment from his lumber yard about the 16th of March, 1938. He recovered some of the property from a warehouse in Priddy, Texas, which was operated by Arnold Jeske. The State introduced Colonel…