Taylor v. State

The indictment charges appellant with the theft of two fiftv-cent bills, lawful currency of the United States, the money of McLeod, Hall & Braden, and which, as charged in the indictment, was taken by appellant from their saloon, a room in the McLeod Hotel, at Paris, in Lamar county.

The court gave in charge to the jury Article 764 of the Penal Code, punishing theft from a house by confinement in the penitentiary, not less than two years nor more than seven, as applicable to this case, and refused to charge, as asked by appellant, that theft from a house, when committed by a domestic servant,…