Jerrols v. State

MORROW, Judge.

This was a prosecution by indictment for theft with a judgment condemning the appellant to confinement in the State penitentiary for a term of four years.

The only question for review is the sufficiency of the evidence. The conviction was for the theft of seed cotton. The owner of the property had a wagon standing in his field in which he claimed to have placed 1300 pounds of seed cotton; two rains had fallen on it, and it had been standing in the field some days, and the wagon and the cotton were taken from the owner’s field in the night-time. The next day cotton which weighed…