La Fell v. State

Appellant was convicted of horse theft; his punishment being as*885sessed at five years’ confinement in tile penitentiary.

The case is one of circumstantial evidence. The owner of the alleged stolen animal testified it was a mare, and was in his pasture about Í2 miles west of Alpine. The last time he saw the animal was on the 4th of January; that on the 12th he discovered she and three mules had disappeared from his pasture; that later these animals were recovered at or near Carlsbad, in the state of New Mexico. The evidence further shows that appellant and Cleveland were in Alpine, and left there…