Bell v. State

KRUEGER, Judge.

The appellant was tried and convicted of the offense of cattle theft, and his punishment was assessed at confinement in the state penitentiary for a term of three years.

Ralph Bell, Ethel Telford, and appellant were jointly indicted and tried for theft of cattle. The jury found Ralph Bell and Ethel Telford not guilty. The testimony shows that on March 17, 1935, appellant killed a red colored yearling with a white face in W. B. Johnson’s pasture; that after he had slaughtered the yearling, he went to the town of Crowell where he met his brother, Ralph, and Ethel Telford, who…