Hedge v. State

LATTIMORE, Judge.

Appellant was convicted of felony theft and his punishment fixed at two years’ confinement in the penitentiary.

The indictment is of unnecessary length and detail, but we think sufficiently charges appellant with the taking of $424.21, the property of M. D. Watkins, from his possession, without his consent and with intent to appropriate same to the use and benefit of appellant.

• Appellant made a motion to quash the indictment based upon the proposition that the want of consent of the alleged owner, to the taking of the money, did not appear from the indictment; that it was not…