Law v. State

HARPER, Judge.

Appellant was prosecuted and convicted of theft of one head of cattle, and his punishment assessed at two years confinement in the penitentiary.

Oscar Benson and Will King testified that on different occasions they passed through a pasture controlled jointly by appellant and Will Duncan. Duncan was engaged in farming and buying cattle for appellant. That on one occasion they saw two head of cattle—calves—they recognized by the flesh marks, etc., as belonging to the Matador ranch. That the first time they saw these calves in the Law-Duncan pasture they were branded N on left hip.…