Vaughn v. State

GRAVES, Judge.

Appellant was charged by indictment with the theft of fifteen chickens, alleged to be the property of Gordon Fuller, and by the jury he was convicted and given a term of one year in the penitentiary.

The facts are rather meager. It is shown therein that Gordon Fuller lost some twenty-five or thirty chickens of a cross breed between a White Leghorn and a Rhode Island Red, which cross breeding produced a white chicken with red around its neck. The time these chickens were lost is rather vaguely fixed at about March 3, 1942. About three weeks thereafter Mr. Fuller’s testimony shows…