Fore v. State

The defendant was indicted, tried, and convicted, at the May term of the District Court of Kinney County, for the theft of a gelding, and his punishment assessed at confinement in the penitentiary for the term of fifteen years. The indictment charges that the animal stolen was the property of one H. C. Griner, and that the same was fraudulently taken from his possession, without his consent, etc.

The evidence shows that the gelding, at the time he was taken, was the property of H. C. Griner, and in the possession of the witness James McLymont, the agent of Griner, who was holding the same for…