Dugat v. State

HARPER, Judge.

Appellant was indicted, tried and convicted of the offense of theft of- cattle, and sentenced to two years confinement in the penitentiary.

1. The question presented by bill of exceptions Ho. 1 presents the most serious question in the case. Appellant was charged with the . theft of one head of cattle, the property of A. D. Middleton. A. D. Middleton testified that his father was named David Middleton; that _ he was dead, having .died in 1877; that witness was his only heir. That his mother also died in 1877, and neither made any will, and he, being the only child, inherited all…