King v. State

Christian, Judge.

The offense is theft of cattle; the punishment, confinement in the penitentiary for two years.

On the 22d of July, 1937, some one stole a black “muley” bull from Grant Williams’ pasture. The animal was about 18 months old and weighed between 500 and 600 pounds. The morning after the theft Williams found tracks of men in his pasture. He followed these tracks about a mile up a road leading to the home of appellant and Eugene King, Jr. He testified: “I didn’t see but two different men’s tracks there; there was a cow track right ahead of theirs.” Pascall Hamilton, Jr., testified…