Smith and Wright v. State

MARTIN, Judge.

— The indictment is in two counts. The first count charges' appellants with the theft of seventy-seven head of goats belonging to L. B. Eckert, and the second count charges them with unlawfully receiving this property from some person to the grand jurors unknown. Wright was convicted under the first count and Smith under the second, each receiving a penalty of two years in the penitentiary.

Wright was an employee of Smith. Smith and Eckert occupied adjoining ranches and each owned goats running in' goat proof inclosures. About the middle of May Eckert found on the premises of…