Fulmore v. State

The two defendants were charged with hog-stealing. It seems that the prosecutrix lost a hog, and that a hog answering to this description had broken into the corn-field on the place where the two defendants were employed in some capacity — as tenants or laborers. The evidence disclosed that after the two defendants had been running this trespassing hog for a while in the presence of several witnesses, one of them shot it. He denied the shooting, claiming that he had only helped run the hog, but the evidence pretty well established that he shot it. There is no proof that after the hog was…