Everett v. State

The defendant was charged with stealing three hogs belonging to one J. M. Windsor and particularly described in the indictment. The evidence for the State showed, that Windsor missed three hogs at the usual feeding time, and after dark approached the house of the defendant and there heard hogs squealing, and saw a buggy drive away on the public road; that he followed on foot as rapidly as possible, until he reached Hilton station, where he procured a buggy, with which he overtook one Kelley Cartledge, who was driving a mulé hitched to an open buggy containing two hogs, one of which was a hog…