WATKINS v. STATE

No. 41880.

438 S.W.2d 819 (1969)

R. D. WATKINS, Appellant, v. The STATE of Texas, Appellee.

Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas.

Rehearing Denied April 16, 1969.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Mitchell, Gilbert & McLean, by Arthur Mitchell, and Phillip W. Gilbert, Austin, for appellant.

Ogden Bass, Dist. Atty., James E. Brown, Asst. Dist. Atty. Angleton, and Jim D. Vollers, State's Atty., Austin, for the State.


OPINION

ONION, Judge.

The offense is theft over $50.00 by false pretext; the punishment, assessed by the jury, 5 years' confinement in the Texas Department of Corrections.

Appellant, in ground of error #2 and #3, challenges the sufficiency of the evidence to sustain the conviction.

The complaining witness, Mrs. Margaret Clark, a 74-year-old widow, testified that on April 6, 1967, the appellant and one David Snyder appeared at her house in...

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