Steel v. State

KRUEGER, Judge.

The offense is theft of a tractor. The punishment assessed is confinement in the penitentiary for a term of two years.

At the very threshold of this case we are confronted with the question of the sufficiency of the indictment, in this, that the state failed to allege in the indictment the value of the stolen tractor. It is essential in all cases of theft, except in theft from the person and theft of certain animals such as horses, mules, cows, etc., to allege the value of the corporeal personal property alleged to have been stolen so that the indictment upon its face may show…