Wright v. State

The defendant was convicted of stealing two hogs. To the overruling of his motion for new trial, based solely on the general grounds, he excepted.

The defendant contends that ownership of the hogs was not sufficiently proved to be in T. W. Kaley, the prosecutor, as alleged in the indictment. Eelatively to ownership of the hogs the prosecutor testified: “They [the hogs] were not a part of the crop. . . W. J. Horne and Leo Norris, two hands I had, were looking after them for me. I only had them two at that place. They were on halves with the tenants or would have been this [the second…