Gentry v. State

DAVIDSON, Pbesiding Judge.

Appellant was convicted of horse-theft, and his punishment assessed at confinement in the penitentiary for a term of five years.

He made a motion for continuance on account of the absence of the witnesses Berry and Burras. It is not necessary to discuss Burras’ testimony further than to state that he proposed to prove by Burras that he" (Burras) was branding horses in the brand found upon the stolen animal, and had branded an animal of like description to the one charged to have been stolen; but defendant himself admitted branding the animal in question. By Berry he…