Smith v. State

This is a case wherein the State accused Willie Smith of the larceny of certain hogs belonging to E. M. Ham. He pleaded not guilty to the indictment, and the jury on the trial found against him. He excepted to the overruling of his motion for new trial, based only on the usual general grounds.

E. M. Ham, the prosecutor, testified that on March 1, 1936, he was the owner of the hogs described in the indictment, that these hogs were ranging on Tom’s Creek and known as Sassafras Island — about eight or ten miles from Statenville, about two or three miles from Tarver; that on Monday, March 2, he…