Vanderhider v. State

HAWKINS, Judge.

— Conviction is for theft of property over the value of fifty dollars, with punishment assessed at confinement in the penitentiary for two years.

The indictment alleges ownership of the property to have been in W. H. Stockton. The evidence shows that three bales of cotton were stolen, the real owners of which were Moore, Calhoun and Howell, respectively. Stockton was a ginner. The three parties mentioned had taken seed cotton to his gin and after it had been ginned and baled it was placed in the gin yard. This yard consisted of about two acres enclosed with a wire fence; the…