Thomas v. State

Ector, Presiding Judge.

The appellant was indicted in the district court of Washington county for the theft of a gray gelding, the property of James Baldridge. He was convicted by the jury, and his punishment assessed at eight years’ confinement in the penitentiary. The indictment is a good one. The court, in its charge to the jury, gave the law as applicable to the testimony.

James Baldridge testifies that the gray gelding, charged in the indictment to have been stolen, was his property; was used on his plantation to help make crops ; that a hired man by the name of George Foster worked, fed,…