Dixon v. State

KRUEGER, Judge.

The appellant was tried and convicted of the offense of theft of one sheep, and his punishment was assessed at confinement in the State penitentiary for a term of two years.

The record shows that some time btween the first day of December, 1933, and the first day of February, 1934, Jim Soules lost a sheep. Some time thereafter he found a sheep on the premises of the appellant’s father, with whom the appellant, who was a single man, resided. The sheep which Soules found at the Dixon place and which he claimed to be his appeared to be about three years old and was branded a “W”…