Ritchie v. State

The plaintiffs in error, Willie Ritchie and Guy Rhodes, hereinafter called defendants, were jointly informed against, tried, and convicted in the district court of Woods county for the crime of larceny of live stock, and each sentenced to serve a term of two years in the state penitentiary.

The evidence of the state was that Noah McGinnis was the owner of a red calf about one Iweek old which he kept in a lot on his farm not far from his residence; that on the 16th day of September, 1927, McGinnis and his wife met the defendants and Milo Brewer riding in a spring wagon, driving a brown horse…