Turner v. State

HENDERSON, Judge.

Appellant was convicted of the theft of one head of cattle, and his punishment assessed at confinement in the penitentiary for a term of two years, and he prosecutes this appeal.

The evidence on the part of the State tended to show that the alleged stolen animal was taken in November or December of 1896, or in January of 1897. The proof as to the ownership of the head of cattle in question in the prosecutor, E. P. Davis, consisted in the following facts: That said Davis lived in Throckmorton County; that he had a ranch of about 95,000 acres in Throckmorton and Young counties;…