State v. Lee

WILLIAMS, C.

Under an indictment charging the defendant with stealing six hogs, the property of one Walter Reynolds, the defendant was tried in the circuit court of Butler County, found guilty, and his punishment assessed at two years in the penitentiary. Defendant has duly perfected an appeal to this court.

The evidence upon the part of the State tends to show that Walter Reynolds, the prosecuting witness, lived on a farm about three-fourths of a mile north of the farm upon which the defendant lived, near Neelyville, in Butler County, Missouri. Reynolds owned a small black sow. The sow was…