Coleman v. State

Robert Coleman was convicted of cattle-stealing in Irwin County. His motion for new trial was overruled, and he excepted. The evidence disclosed that the prosecutor’s place, known as the Clements’ place, and the range immediately about it on which the cattle in question ranged, was in Irwin County, about seven or ten miles from the Irwin County line; that there are two counties between Irwin County and Dooly County where the cattle in question were found on Clarence Taylor’s public pasture; and that the prosecutor, Clements, on or about August 18, 1939, saw the cattle in question on his open…