Huff v. State

OPINION

DOUGLAS, Judge.

This is an appeal from a conviction for the offense of theft of property over the value of $50.00. The punishment was assessed at ten years.

Appellant challenges the sufficiency of the evidence.

The record reflects that Pearl Joffrion’s 1962 Catalina Pontiac was parked in front of her residence in Houston the evening of December 12, 1970, and that it was missing on the morning of December 13, 1970. Officer Joseph A. Albitre of the California highway patrol testified that on February 7, 1971, he stopped appellant in Bakersfield, California for a minor traffic violation.…