Brown v. State

PRENDERGAST, Judge.

The appellant was indicted, tried and convicted of hog theft and his punishment fixed at three years imprisonment in the penitentiary.

The appellant, in his motion for new trial and brief, claims that the verdict is contrary to the law and evidence and without evidence to support it. We have carefully gone over and considered the statement of facts. If the State’s witnesses are to be believed, and evidently they were by the jury and trial judge, the evidence is ample and clear to sustain the conviction. If the jury had believed the appellant and his witnesses they should…