Roquemore v. State

HENDERSON, Judge.

Appellant was convicted of theft from the person, and his punishment assessed at two years confinement in the penitentiary; hence this appeal.

The case is one of circumstantial evidence, and the theory of the State is that the prosecutor, J. S. Dearing, who had recently arrived with his family in the town of Nacogdoches, shortly after leaving the train, met up with appellant, Boquemore, and one Charley Slay. The prosecutor had some whisky and the parties drank thereof, and prosecutor soon became intoxicated. Appellant and his companion induced prosecutor to go into a vacant…