Schmidt v. State

HARPER, Judge.

Appellant was indicted, charged with the theft of cattle. He was adjudged guilty on a trial, and sentenced to two years confinement in the penitentiary.

The testimony shows beyond question that appellant sold the cow in question to Mit Cox in April, 1910, for which animal Cox paid him nineteen dollars. In May following the prosecuting witness, Fitzgerald, approached Cox, and, describing -an animal that he had lost, asked Cox if he had seen such cow on the range. From the description Cox knew it was the cow he had purchased from appellant, and so informed Fitzgerald, and invited…