Heaton v. State

LATTIMORE, Judge.

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

The accusation was theft of a hog. In the indictment ownership, etc., of said hog was laid in Irene Ruff. Mrs. Ruff was a married woman living with her husband on a 1600 acre ranch. Mr. Ruff was not at his house when the hog was taken, but was somewhere out on the ranch.

Mrs. Ruff testified that she saw appellant carry the alleged stolen pig from where it was shot and put it in a car which she had met ten or fifteen minutes before that, and in which were appellant and one Jess Walker. She saw three of her…