Miles v. State

DAVIDSON, Presiding Judge.

Appellant was convicted of theft, and his punishment assessed at two years in the penitentiary.

The indictment charges the theft to have been committed, from the wife. The contention is that the ownership should have been alleged in the husband. The facts show that George Schmucker was in business in Dallas, having a store; that the night previous to the theft he carried some money to his residence, which is in a different part of the city, and placed the pocketbook with the money in it, under a mattress. This seems to have been his custom. Leaving home the following…