Gant v. State

— Plaintiff in error, Forest Gant, was tried by jury, found guilty, and sentenced to three years in the State prison for cattle stealing. The first count of the information on which Gant was convicted charged the larceny of a brown bull yearling, the property of Ransom Ard.

On a search by officers of defendant’s premises, the hide of a butchered animal answering the description of the one charged as having been stolen, and identified as such, was found buried, together with hides of other animals appar ently also stolen. This circumstance, considered in connection with other testimony of a…