Tucker v. State

HAWKINS, Judge.

Conviction is for cattle theft. Punishment, two years in the penitentiary.

Appellant and Charley Jackson (owner of the alleged stolen animal), are both negroes living in the same community. Jackson bought a cow with a calf about a month and a half old. He kept the calf for more than a year, marking it with two splits in each ear. It disappeared and was gone some six months when it came back to Jackson’s premises. It was then apparently marked with one split in the left ear and half overcrop in the right. This was appellant’s mark and he claimed the animal as his property…