Goode v. State

DAVIDSON, Presiding Judge.

Appellant was convicted of cattle "theft, his punishment being assessed at two years confinement in the penitentiary.

The evidence discloses the facts that Collins owned three head of cattle, two calves or yearlings and one two-year-old. Appellant is charged with stealing one of these cattle, described as a motley-face calf or "coming yearling.” By "coming yearling” it seems to mean that if the calf had not become twelve months of age that it would shortly do so. Appellant’s brand was found upon three animals. One of them, the motley-face animal, was sold by…