Thomas v. State

Appellant was indicted and convicted in the circuit court of Carroll county of the crime of robbing Lemon J Minyard of a cowhand ^yearling, and sentenced to the' penitentiary for the term of three years. From that judgment he prosecutes this appeal.

The evidence which was accepted by the- jury as true was substantially as follows: appellant is a white man; Lemon Minyard is a negro. Appellant had a dog which was a “suck-egg” dog. For a period of about two months before the alleged robbery, appellant’s dog had been going at night upon the premises of Lemon Minyard and sucking his eggs. He had…