Compton v. State

BEAUCHAMP, Judge.

The appellant was given a sentence of two years in the penitentiary for the theft of six head of cattle from the T. W. Lee Ranch in Shackelford County in October, 1938. The case was transferred to Throckmorton County and then to Jones County, from which this appeal comes. A former conviction was reversed by this court. (135 S. W. (2d) 712).

The State relies for conviction on circumstantial evidence and a review of the facts will be necessary to determine the sufficiency of the circumstances proven by the State to- support the conviction. Like many such cases the circumstances…