Ramirez v. State

BEAUCHAMP, Judge.

Appellant was convicted of the theft of one head of cattle and assessed a penalty of six years in the penitentiary.

This is a companion case to No. 22,768 this day decided. (Page 218 of this volume). The complaint with reference to the indictment is the same and the ruling in that case will apply to all of the questions raised in this case except to the plea of former jeopardy.

The animal described by the evidence in this case is a yellow calf, part Brahma and part Hereford. It bears the branding mark of Charles E. Gooding but the brand of appellant’s father had been…