Long v. State

This cause was referred by the court to two of its commissioners, Messrs. Hocker and Glen, for investigation who have reported that the judgment ought to be reversed.

Plaintiff in error was tried and convicted in July, 1901, in,the Criminal Court of Record of Orange county, upon an information charging the larceny of two cows, the property of William Lancaster. It appears from the evi*136denee that defendant, claiming to own the two cows alleged to have been stolen which were then in a pasture, went out there with one Douglass, as Douglass claimed to sell him the cattle, but as defendant claimed…