Goens v. State

DAVIDSON, Judge.

Appellant prosecutes this appeal from a con vie tion or horse theft. This is a case of circumstantial evidence. The main fact relied upon for conviction was possession by defendant of the alleged stolen animal. The animal disappeared from its accustomed range in Kerr County in the fall of 1892, and appellant -was seen in possession of it in Menard County the following summer— in July or August. The remaining evidence is vague suspicion, and mainly that appellant was seen in Kerr County prior to the time of the disappearance of the alleged stolen animal. George Sutton,…