Compton v. State

This appeal is from a judgment sentencing appellant to a term of one year in the penitentiary upon a charge of stealing two hogs, the property of Nevia Schultz. For the reversal of this judgment, it is insisted (1) that the testimony was insufficient to sustain the conviction, and (2) that incompetent testimony was admitted over the appellant’s objection.

As to the sufficiency of the testimony, it may be said that evidence was offered to the following effect. Miss Schultz, the owner of the stolen hogs, testified that about daylight on December 23, 1930, she was awakened by hearing her hogs…