Ritchie v. State

McDonald, judge

Cattle theft is the offense; the punishment, three and a half years’ confinement in the penitentiary.

Appellant was charged under a joint indictment returned in Maverick County, but upon the court’s own motion the venue was changed to Kinney County, where appellant was tried, alone, under a severance.

The state’s evidence reflects the following:

The witness Pullin, who worked for Trayler and Lorenze on that part of the J. K. Burr ranch known as the Lorenze- Burr ranch, was traveling toward Eagle Pass on the Spofford-Eagle Pass highway when he saw a dead steer lying in a pasture of…