State v. Busch

Appellant, defendant below, was convicted of grand larceny, for the stealing of cattle, was sentenced to five years' imprisonment in the penitentiary, and has appealed.

The State's evidence shows that Frank B. Cochran owned a farm in Lincoln County on which he had fifty-seven head of cattle. In the field in which the cattle were there was a barn, with adjacent sheds, near the highway, occupied by the cattle at will. On the night of December 31, 1935, or rather the early morning of January 1, 1936, at about two or two-thirty o'clock A.M., seven of those cattle were stolen. The State's evidence…