Hammond v. State

The circumstances of hog bones and other meat being found in the house of the defendant, hog hair at the place that the defendant used as a washstand, which was the color of the hair of the hog alleged to have been stolen, the abrupt departure of the defendant when his house was going to be searched, his refusal to return with the searchers, for the reason that he was hurrying to town to get a doctor for his sick boy, where the evidence shows that he had no sick boy, and his continuous absence until arrested and brought back to trial, “are strongly suggestive of a suspicious intercourse on…