Burleson v. State

MORROW, Presiding Judge.

Theft of hogs is the offense; penalty assessed at confinement in the penitentiary for two years.

According to the testimony of Ella Curl, a negro woman, she was the owner of three hogs which were upon the farm on which she was living. About noon the first day of September, the appellant, Curg Burleson, came to her home in a wagon and took the three hogs away. Appellant was accompanied by one Vandy Steptoe. The prosecuting witness was at home and saw the transaction but made no protest so far as the record is understood.

Appellant testified that he purchased the hogs from…