Sweet v. State

Plaintiff in error, hereinafter called defendant, was convicted in the district court of Beckham county of the crime of larceny of domestic animals, and his punishment fixed by the jury at imprisonment in the state penitentiary for a term of three years.

The evidence of the state was that E. W. Blain was the owner of a ranch and several hundred head, of cattle in Beckham county; that on the night of January 19, 1929, 29 head of cows and 2 calves were stolen from the Blain pasture and driven to' the town of Benonine, and there shipped out on the same night to Kansas City, Mo., where the cattle…