Watters v. State

LATTIMORE, Judge.

— Conviction for theft; punishment, four years in the penitentiary.

On the night of June 2, 1931, forty-four fleeces of wool belonging to S disappeared. Thirty-four of them were in a sack, ten were lying near by. Shortly thereafter the sheriff found in possession of appellant a sack of fleeces which, from evidence found, caused him to arrest appellant and take the wool. S saw it at the jail, and then, and also upon the trial, identified it as his and as part of that taken. So did the Mexican who sheared the sheep. As far as we have been able to tell from the testimony of the…