Barnes v. State

DAVIDSON, Judge.

Sheep theft is the offense; the punishment, two years in the State penitentiary.

The pasture or ranch of Mrs. Thomson, in Schleicher County, lies along the highway from Eldorado to San Angelo. Buie, an employee of Mrs. Thomson, was riding in the pasture, when he heard a rifle shot fired from the direction of the highway. He immediately started in the direction from which the shot had been fired, and, upon arriving, found appellant seated in his car, parked along the highway, and saw Binyon, coming out of the pasture, with one of Mrs. Thomson’s sheep, which had just been killed.…