Lane v. State

PRENDERGAST, Judge.

Appellant was convicted of the theft of property over the value of fifty dollars, and his punishment fixed at the lowest prescribed by law.

It is unnecessary to give but a brief statement of the evidence. About August 10,1911, Mrs. Laura Best and her husband took the T. & N. 0. Railroad train at a little station just south of the county line of Angelina County. This railroad extends from Beaumont to Dallas, running through Angelina County from the south practically towards the north, Angelina County being a long county north and south. Mrs. Best had with her in her hand-bag…