Lasker v. State

WOODLEY, Judge.

The offense is theft from the person; the punishment, 7 years.

The prosecuting witness Idele Fletcher of Beaumont, while visiting her daughter in Houston, was a shopper in Foley Brothers Department Store on April 20, 1955. She purchased a shirt and in change received a ten dollar bill which she noticed had a small red circle stamped in the middle. She called the attention of her companion Mrs. Leo Wilder to the marked bill.

Shortly thereafter, as the prosecuting witness stepped off the escalator in the basement, someone bumped into her. Her purse fell open and her billfold was…