Jones v. State

The only question of moment presented by the record in this case is as to the sufficiency of the evidence to support the verdict and judgment.

The prosecution.rested alone upon the testimony.of the *87alleged owner of the hog charged to have been stolen. ■The defence produced the wife of the defendant, her mother, grandmother, and grandfather, apparently for the purpose of establishing the fact that the hog testified to by the State’s witness was not his, but that it belonged to the wife of the defendant. There was such irreconcilable conflict between the statements of the prosecuting witness and…