Fisher v. State

Plaintiff in error, hereinafter called defendant, was convicted in the district court of Cotton county of larceny of domestic fowls and his punishment fixed at a term of two and one-half years in the state penitentiary.

The record discloses that at the time charged there was stolen in the nighttime from the premises of George Gerber, Sr., 97 chickens. The larceny was discovered early the next morning, and the owner, with the assistance of other persons, tracked a car leading from the scene of the theft to the home of defendant’s'father in Comanche county, where they found the chickens.…