Moore v. State

OPINION

ONION, Presiding Judge.

These appeals are taken from convictions in a joint trial before a jury for felony theft under the former Penal Code. The punishment was assessed by the jury at nine (9) years for each appellant.

At the outset we are confronted with the claim of the appellants that the indictment is fatally defective for failure to sufficiently describe the property allegedly stolen. Omitting the formal parts, the indictment states that the appellants “did then and there unlawfully and fraudulently take Personal property of over the value of $50.00 to wit: barbed wire of the value…