Loza v. State

The appellant in this case was tried and *489■found guilty of the theft of a gelding, the property of one Juan Sarrate, and his punishment assessed at five years’ imprisonment in the penitentiary. Concisely, but in substance, the evidence upon which he was convicted may be .stated thus : About eight o’clock on Sunday morning one Nazario Rodrigues, a servant of the owner of the animal .alleged to have been stolen, was riding the horse from the river, where he had taken him to water, and was passing .along one of the public streets in the city of Brownsville. Defendant met him, and, drawing a…