Nolley v. State

McDonald, judge.

The offense is cattle theft; the punishment, ten years.

The State’s testimony reflects that sixteen head of cattle were missing from the place of Horace Morgan near Naples; that a chain on the gate had been broken; that a truck with dual wheels had backed up to his loading chute; that Morgan later saw the cattle on the J. T. Humphries place in Van Zandt County; that new brands were peeling off on the cattle; that appellant had leased a place near the Sabine River that adjoined Humphries’; that appellant hauled some cattle there in a pickup truck; that rains caused the fences to…