Compton v. State

KRUEGER, Judge.

The offense is theft of one cattle. The punishment assessed is confinement in the state penitentiary for a term of four years.

This case is one of circumstantial evidence. Appellant questions the sufficiency thereof to sustain his conviction. The rec ord reflects that L. B. Smith was the manager of the ranch belonging to Furd Halsell and son and was in charge of all the cattle and live stock thereon; that appellant was in possession of the Kilworth Ranch under and by virtue of a lease; that the latter ranch joined the former on the west. On the 5th day of July, 1944, while Smith…