Tucker v. State

CARR, Presiding Judge.

In the circuit court the accused was convicted on an indictment charging larceny of “one heifer, an animal of the cow kind, the personal property of A. A. Hinson.”

The evidence for the State showed that the heifer was in Mr. Hinson’s pasture and was later found in the possession of the appellant on an occasion when he -was attempting to deliver it to a third party. The heifer was identified as being the property of Mr. Hinson.. According to the testimony of the sheriff and other witnesses, the defendant admitted to them or in their presence that he stole the animal.

The…