Sanders v. State

CHRISTIAN, Judge.

The offense is receiving and concealing stolen property; the punishment, confinement in the penitentiary for two years.

J. C. Cleere testified that on or about the 22nd of June, 1939, he lost two head of cattle. It was the theory of the State, given support in the evidence, that Richard Brown and William Ashley stole the cattle and sold them to appellant, appellant knowing such cattle to have been acquired by theft at the time he bought them. It was the further version of the State that the stolen cattle were butchered by appellant and sold to the C. & W. Grocery Company,…