Mitchell v. State

BROOKS, Judge.

Appellant was convicted of the theft of a hog, and his punishment assessed at confinement in the penitentiary for a 'term of four years.

The facts adduced on the trial are substantially as follows: Appellant, with his two codefendants, the Cashes, agreed to steal the hog of the prosecuting witness Cogburn; that appellant furnished one of the Cashes with a gun, and told him to go and shoot the hog, which was running in the Cogburn pasture; that Cash took the gun, went into the pasture, shot and tilled the hog, but did nothing with reference to its asportation except to hide the…