Wilson v. State

LATTIMORE, Judge.

(Conviction for receiving and concealing stolen property; punishment, two years in the penitentiary.

Appellant owned a ranch, and, according to the State’s theory of the case, needed cotton-seed cake with which to feed his cattle. He approached two men engaged in hauling and trucking to know if they knew where he could get any. They informed him that they did, but that the cake belonged to another ranchman who was a friend of one of the men thus approached. A price was agreed upon, and thereafter at night the two men went in a truck to the ranch of Mr. Coble situated across…