Knowles v. State

JOHNSON, Judge.

The appellant was convicted at the Spring Term of the Circuit Court of Baldwin County, Alabama for the offense of cattle theft and sentenced to a term of ten years in the State Penitentiary. From said judgment, this appeal is made.

Mr. Lewis Cotton testified for the State that he lived six miles southwest of Bay Minette, Alabama in Baldwin County; that he operated a farm there on which he raised cattle; that on or about January 7, 1967, one of his cattle “was killed”; that this cow was found “in one of the fields or pasture known as the Beebe Farm”, which Cotton leased, “about…