Dozier v. State

LATTIMORE, Judge.

Conviction in District Court of Haskell County of theft of cattle, punishment two years in the penitentiary.

Mr. Singleton placed a heifer in a pasture belonging to appellant’s mother, to breed her to a male therein. Appellant killed her that night and peddled out the beef the next morning. He claimed that he thought she was a heifer belonging to his mother and that his mother had consented for him to kill an animal belonging to herself and peddle it out for beef. The' pasture contained something over 500 acres.

There are a number of bills of exception reserved to argument of…