Blalock v. State

MARTIN, Judge.

Offense, hog theft; penalty, two years in the penitentiary.

Officers approached the house at nighttime where accomplice McElroy boarded. They observed a light in the barn and appellant and another carrying part of a hog. These two attempted to escape when accosted by the officers and the owner of the hog. In a hole near the barn they found the entrails, liver, lights and head of a hog. • Under the floor of the kitchen they found a ham and middling. About this date prosecuting witness Belcher lost a speckled sow. He identified portions of the remains of the hog found' at the house…