Eaton v. State

GRAVES, Judge.

Appellant was convicted of theft of property over the value of $50.00, and sentenced to five years in the penitentiary.

The testimony is presented to us in a confusing form, and while in a narrative form, it appears as in the third person, and seems to be a narrative of the person preparing the statement — as to what such person thought the witnesses said rather than a narrative of what the witnesses actually said. This form of a statement of facts is not satisfactory, and should not be indulged in.

We do gather, however, from the facts that there were some cloaks and an overcoat,…