Chappelear v. State

This appeal is prosecuted from a conviction had in the district court of Washita county, on the 30th day of March, 1912, in which the defendant was found guilty of larceny of domestic animals, and his punishment assessed at imprisonment in the penitentiary for the term of five years. The evidence shows that Ben Chappelear and Tom Smith, residing near the town of Cloud Chief, learned that their neighbor, Charley Maddox, was going to ship some cattle from the town of Dill, on the Orient railroad, to Wichita. Maddox and his brother drove the cattle to Dill, arriving with them there about dark;…