Carroll v. State

Plaintiff in error, hereinafter called defendant, was convicted in the district court of Jefferson county of the offense of larceny of an automobile, and his punishment fixed by the jury at imprisonment in the state penitentiary for a term of six years.

The evidence of the state was that the 1931, Model A, Ford coupe of Dr. Watson was stolen from his garage in the town of Ryan, in Jefferson: county, after 9:30 p. m., on January 31, 1933; that about 9:30 or 10 o’clock on the next morning this automobile was found on a public street in the town of Memphis, Tex., about two hundred miles from the…