State v. Thomas

The defendant, convicted of horse-stealing, appeals from *828the judgment which sentences him to one year’s imprisonment at hard labor in the Penitentiary.

First — He excepted to the ruling of the court under which "Wooten, a witness for the State, was permitted to testify as to what the defendant had sworn to in the parish court in the case of Blanks & Wooten vs. Jacob Simmons in regard to the ownership of the horse which the defendant was accused of having stolen. The judge did not err. It was necessary to establish that the property in question belonged to some one other than the defendant, and…