Garcia v. State

HAWKINS, Judge.

Conviction is for theft of a hog, punishment being two years in the penitentiary.

Braun, the alleged owner of the animal had a number of hogs running on the range. He missed ten or twelve head. He secured the aid of Patterson, an officer, and they discovered where quite a bunch of hogs had been driven from the accustomed range to the Cude place, which at the time was vacant. From signs there it appeared the hogs had been penned and loaded in a wagon and truck, the tracks of the vehicles indicating the truck was loaded last. Braun’s hogs were marked with a “swallow fork” in each…