Rice v. State

HARPER, Judge.

Appellant was convicted of theft, and his punishment assessed at a fine of $5 and thirty days imprisonment in the county jail.

R. A. Aldrich testified that he was an officer of the City of Dallas, and on the 2nd of February he saw appellant between San Jacinto and Bryan Streets with a sack on his shoulder; that he examined the sack and found it contained medicines, one article being a bottle of asperine tablets, with the label on it, “500 Compound Tablets, Asperine, five grains, manufactured and guaranteed by the First Texas Chemical Company, Dallas, Texas.” That he asked…