Silvas v. State

DAVIDSON, Presiding Judge.

Appellant was convicted of cattle theft under indictment charging him as a principal.

The case is one purely of circumstantial evidence. There were no eyewitnesses either to the taking of the animal or to the act of its being slaughtered. The facts in a general way show that appellant owned two ranches some miles, apart. On Sunday about noon or little later, it was discovered within about half a mile or little farther of defendant’s residence a cow had been butchered. The alleged owner claimed the animal. The facts further show that wagon tracks were seen to go from…