Watkins v. State

OPINION

KEITH, Commissioner.

Appellant was indicted in two cases of felony theft and waived his right to be tried separately on the individual cases and they were tried before the same jury. Appellant pleaded not guilty but was found guilty in each instance; his punishment was fixed by the jury at confinement for ten years in each case. 1

Appellant does not challenge the sufficiency of the evidence and we simply note that appellant received money from the complaining witnesses as an investment in a company he purportedly was organizing. The company failed and the complainants lost their money.…