Thomas v. State

MORROW, Judge.

Appellant was convicted of the theft of twenty head of goats and his punishment assessed at two years confinement in the State penitentiary.

Prentice, the alleged owner of the stolen property, claimed to- have missed twenty head of goats from his herd about the 20th day of July. They were marked and branded and he claimed to be able to recognize them and know them by reason of his intimate knowledge and contact with them and his long experience in the breeding and handling of stock of that kind. On the October following one Skaggs told Prentice over the telephone that he thought…