Musgrove v. State

The accused was convicted of simple larceny (cattle stealing), his motion for a new trial was overruled, and that judgment is assigned as error. The stolen animal was described in the indictment as follows: “A white-face Hereford bull weighing about 750 pounds, marked overbit and underbit and crop in left ear, and marked split and underbit in right ear.” The evidence as set forth in the record shows that one witness, not the owner or keeper of the bull, but an attaché of the sheriff’s office who recovered the animal, testified that the bull was “a Hereford bull weighing 755 pounds, white…