Hubbard v. State

CARR, Judge.

Charlie Hubbard was indicted and convicted for the offense of stealing “one cow or animal of the cow kind.” Title 14, Sec. 331, Code 1940.

Charles C. Nance, Jr. owned a male calf or yearling weighing about 500 pounds and about six months old. The animal was seen in a pasture of a neighbor and among some cattle that the appellant was charged with feeding. It remained here for a day or two and then disappeared.

A few days after its disappearance was observed, a skin and head of a slaughtered.' yearling were found at some secluded place. The evidence in the aspect of identification…