Coldwell v. State

The appeal is from a judgment of the Giles County Criminal Court, upon a conviction of the prisoner of the crime of horse stealing. The proof is that he borrowed the animal from the prosecutor in Giles County, under the pretext of riding to the house of one of the neighbors of the prosecutor, promising to return it in two hours. He took the horse into Alabama instead, and sold it as his own, in which *430State he was arrested, and brought' back to Giles County for indictment and trial.' He was charged in a' single count with horse stealing, and was convicted under a provision of the Code, which…