Ashmore v. State

CALHOUN, Judge.

Theft of a hog is the offense; punishment, two years in the penitentiary.

The evidence for the state in brief was as follows: The complaining witness, Mrs. Annie Robertson, owned hogs running on the open range. On the 9th day of November, 1931, acting under a search warrant the sheriff of Newton county, together with several others, including Mrs. Robinson and her son, went to the appellant’s place, and there Mrs. Robinson identified in the appellant’s possession five head of hogs as belonging to her. One hog in particular was referred to throughout the record as a “ground…