Brisco v. State

Appellant was indicted for theft of a gelding. The proof with regard to the sexual character and condition of the animal stolen is as follows : The alleged owner says: “ He was a gelding. * * * What I mean by the word ‘1 gelding ” is a horse with one stone. The horse would run after mares; that is the reason one of his eyes was knocked out. * * * He was a horse, and not a mare. * * * Sometimes I could see it down, and sometimes it was in his belly.”

The next witness says he got the horse from defendant. “ I had him in my possession some ten or fifteen days before I traded him. I am satisfied…