Stiles v. State

HAWKINS, Judge.

Appellant was convicted for the theft of cattle, and his punishment assessed at two years’ confinement in the penitentiary.

About the 18th of March, 1920, J. J. Ellison, who lived in Mason County, missed from his pasture four head of yearlings. The appellant, Stiles, lived in McCulloch County, about eight miles from Ellison’s pasture. The owner found all of the yearlings in question; the particular one which appellant is charged with having stolen he found in the possession of Cal Willis in McCulloch County, about a month after it was missed. Willis had bought the yearling from…