Brown v. State

The writ of error brings for review conviction of the offense of larceny of certain cattle' described as “four cows marked crop split under bit in one ear, swallow fork in other ear and branded JE, a better and more particular, description of said four cows being to affiant unknown.”

The State relied in part upon circumstantial evidence for a conviction of the accused in this case. Without the circumstantial evidence there was not sufficient direct evidence upon which to base a conviction. The circumstantial evidence adduced to supplement the direct evidence did not meet the rule that when…