Standfield v. State

PRENDERGAST, Judge.

Appellant appealed from a conviction of cattle theft with a penalty of three years assessed against him.

He claims that three of the State’s witnesses, Alex Shinault, Alvie Tucker and his wife, Etta Tucker, were accomplices and that their testimony showing the offense was not sufficiently corroborated to justify conviction.

The animal was alleged to have been taken from Johnnie Jones, the owner, on or about January 18, 1914. The indictment was preferred on April 4, 1917.

The testimony shows that said Jones had the care, control and management of what is called the OX ranch in…