Moxley v. State

Horace Moxley was convicted of cattle-stealing. His motion for new trial was overruled, and he excepted. The evidence was to the effect, that “in the evening .part of the day on September 15, 1939,” the defendant got possession of the cow in question; that early in the morning of September 16, about 7 or 7:30 o’clock, the defendant sold the cow at the stock-yard in Lyons, Toombs County, Georgia, about forty miles from- the place where the cow was missing, having arrived at the stock-yard before the buyer thereof had reported for duty. Eecently thereafter the defendant was arrested and placed…