Yelvington v. State

'McCulloch, C. J.

Appellant was indicted for the crimes of grand larceny and receiving stolen property, and the trial jury convicted him of grand larceny, but acquitted him -of the -crime of receiving stolen property. An appeal has 'been duly prosecuted, and the first ground urgéd for reversal is -that the testimony is not -sufficient to -sustain the verdict.

-The charge against appellant is that he stole two mules, the property of C. P. Trice. Mr. Trice i-s a farmer in Monroe County, and it has -been his -custom for many years to turn his mules and other stock into the White River bottom after…