Guinn v. State

DAVIDS OH, Judge.

Appellant was convicted of the theft of cattle,, and appeals.

The indictment alleges the ownership to be in one W. Harrison, and the evidence shows the cattle were taken from Baylor County, and carried into Archer County, and were found in the inclosure of one John Unsell. The case is one depending wholly upon circumstantial evidence, as to who was the taker. The cattle were unbranded when taken, and were branded when found in Unsell’s pasture. The witness Craddock, sheriff of Baylor County, had the defendant and Unsell under arrest at Unsell’s place; the defendant being under…