Sanders v. State

GRAVES, Judge.

Appellant was charged with the theft of one head of cattle, and upon conviction, was assessed a penalty of two years in the penitentiary, and he appeals.

The state’s testimony shows that on a given date — sometime in the late afternoon of the 23rd day of April, 1949, — a deputy sheriff of Montgomery County passed a pick-up truck with three Negroes therein. He knew one of these men and observed something peculiar in the rear portion of such truck. Appellant was one of the persons in such truck. The deputy sheriff saw this truck turn into a filling station and he turned around and…