Hatfield v. State

The plaintiff in error, hereinafter called the defendant, was convicted in the district court of Hughes county, of the crime of grand larceny, and sentenced to serve a term of two years in the penitentiary at McAlester. From which judgment and sentence the defendant, after perfecting the record, appealed to this court.

The substance of the state’s evidence is as follows: Julia Scott stated she knew the defendant, Russ Hatfield; she lost a calf on or about February 26, 1929; she did not know whether the hide found in the field of the defendant was the hide from her calf, as she did not see the…