State v. Jones

The defendant, Jefferson Jones, was indicted and convicted of stealing a mare, the property of James Cleveland, and sentenced to the penitentiary for a term of two years. From the judgment he has appealed. The evidence for the State was as follows: James Cleveland testified that he had a mare stolen about the 5th day of November, 1877, in Mercer county, about fifteen miles north of Princeton, and found her at George Brown’s. George Brown testified that he had her in his possession two or three weeks, and purchased her of a man who said his name was Reed, but could not state that defendant is…