Brown v. State

The defendant was convicted of cattle theft in the circuit court of Macon County and sentenced to three (3) years imprisonment.

On May 29, 1969, James H. Pearson and his sistex-, Drucilla Pearson, were joint owners of a cow. On the night of May 29, 1969, the cow was tied with a rope near their home in Macon County and was missing the next morning, the rope having been cut and a part of it left at the scene. On June 6, 1969, James Pearson, along with several deputy sheriffs and a Mr. Hammock, a cattle investigator for the State, found the cow in a pasture in Montgomery County which was leased…