Hill v. State

HAWKINS, Judge.

Appellant was convicted of the theft of a hog alleged to have belonged to one Sam Hines, and his punishment assessed at confinement in the penitentiary for a term of two years.

Appellant and Sam Hines were negroes living in the same community. Hines claims to have lost a sow and pigs, and searched for them for several months without result, and finally located them, as he claims, in appellant’s pen. The prosecuting witness positively identified the sow and shoats as belonging to him; appellant, on the other hand, stoutly contended that the hogs were his hogs, and had formerly…