Lafell v. State

DAVIDSON, Presiding Judge.

Appellant was convicted of horse theft, his punishment being assessed at five years confinement in the penitentiary.

The case is one of circumstantial evidence. The owner of the alleged stolen animal testified it was a mare and was in his pasture about twelve miles west of Alpine. The last time he saw the animal was on the 4th of January. That on the 12th he discovered she and three mules had disappeared from his pasture. That later these animals were recovered at or near Carlsbad in the State of New Mexico. The evidence further shows that appellant and Cleveland were…