Bergemann and Marckwardt v. State

LATTIMORE, Judge.

Conviction for theft of cattle; punishment, two years in the penitentiary.

Mr. Word lived eighteen miles west of New Braunfels, in Comal county, and had a large pasture in which were a number of cows and calves. He had missed several head. The substance of his testimony is that about 7 or 8 P. M. on Monday, September 26, 1932, as he was going home from New Braunfels he overtook these two appellants who were riding in a gray Chandler car, in which witness had often seen them together before. Noting particularly both the car and its two occupants, Mr. Word followed along behind…