Graham v. State

Under an indictment charging him with the theft of eight head of cattle, the appellant Robert Graham was convicted in the circuit court of Adams County, Mississippi, on the charge of grand larceny and sentenced to serve a term of five years in the state penitentiary. The proof disclosed that fifteen head of cattle belonging to Messrs. Newman and Crawford were either stolen from Glasscock Island in the Mississippi River during the month of April 1942, or had later escaped from said island, and that in September thereafter four of them were found in the pasture of the appellant in the State of…