Brown v. State

WOODLEY, Judge.

The offense is felony theft; the punishment, two years.

The indictment alleged the theft of bed sheets of the value of over $50 from C. H. Hester, in Randall County, Texas.

Hester was the freight agent for the Santa Fe Railway at Brownwood. He testified that he was in charge of any freight that was in the depot or coming through it.

A shipment of sheets arrived in Brownwood in two Santa Fe trucks. They were shipped from Post, Texas and consigned some to Stephenville and some to Arlington and Grand Prairie —via Brownwood.

Appellant was an employee of the Santa Fe at Brownwood,…