Blocker v. State

The defendant was indicted and convicted for the larceny of a certain described hog. The entire evidence was circumstantial, and, as such, did not sufficiently show that the hog described in the indictment had been stolen, or, if so, that the hog found in the possession of the defendant was that hog. While it may be gathered from the testimony of the prosecutor that the hog found in the possession of the defendant was one belonging to him, yet his identification of the hog as the one alleged in the indictment as having been stolen was not satisfactory. In fact, taking his testimony as a whole…