Lee v. State

Harry Lee was indicted for the offense of simple larceny, hog-stealing. The indictment alleged the property to be that of Nelly Salter. The defendant was found guilty. His motion for new trial was overruled, and-he excepted. The testimony of the prosecutor, relative to the ownership of the hogs in question, was in part as follows: “I live on a place.Mr. Lonnie Zetterower rented for me. [Zetterower did not live on the place.] I am his tenant or share-cropper. I said that I had six brood sows and forty pigs and twelve shoats. I was raising them on shares for Mr. Zetterower. The hog in question…