Elliott v. People

The people introduced evidence that defendant was seen to drop in the river sacks which were later retrieved and found to contain the head, feet and pieces of hide of a yearling which fitted together to make a whole hide except for a small piece which had been cut out behind the right shoulder; that the right ear was cropped, but there was no brand on the hide; that de*386fendant used no ear crop on his cattle and branded them on the left side, and that a hind quarter of beef which was found butchered and hanging up at defendant’s home fitted perfectly to the foot and hide found, but a front…