Richards v. State

RAMSEY, Judge.

On the 2d day of October, 1908, an indictment was returned into the District Court of Bosque County charging ap pellant with the theft of one head of cattle, the property of W. H. Gibbons. On a trial had in said court on the 19th day of April, 1909,' appellant was by the jury found guilty as charged, and his punishment assessed at confinement in the penitentiary for two years.

The evidence tends to show that sometime about the first of September, 1907, Gibbons bought from one H. B. White something over 300 head of cattle, and that among the number were some six or seven unbranded…