Jones v. State

DAVIDSON, Presiding Judge.

Appellant was convicted of cattle theft. The alleged owner was named Swayne. The evidence is rather voluminous in minor details. The case is one purely of circumstantial evidence. A witness named. Holts testified that on the evening of the 3d of July, 1907, he was on horseback and passed where Ran Jones, son of appellant and Miles Dark, grandson of appellant were standing by their horses and one of them had a rope in his hand; that he passed by without speaking to Ran but Ran spoke to him; that about fifty or sixty yards from where the two were standing was a…