Houser v. State

LATTIMORE, Judge.

Appellant was convicted in the Criminal District Court of Tarrant County, for theft of an automobile, and his punishment fixed at two years confinement in the penitentiary.

It appears from the record that a man named Baker parked a new Ford car near a movie playhouse, in the city of Ft. Worth, about eight o’clock one night, and that shortly thereafter the same was taken. About nine, or nine-thirty o ’clock on said night, Harry Hamilton, a detective in the office of the Criminal District Attorney, saw appellant and another party in possession of the car, driving out of the city…