Fuller v. State

Grover Fuller appeals from conviction under an information charging him with stealing two cows from one Richmond. Fuller admitted that he took the cows from Richmond’s pasture near Van Burén on the night of March 7, 1950, and hauled them to Spring-dale, where he sold them. His defense was that he believed the pasture had been rented by and was in possession of another person, not Richmond, and that the cows were two that had been stolen from him some time previously by this other person. It is clear that this belief was a mistaken one, but if he honestly held the belief it was a good defense…