Drew v. State

The plaintiff in error, Arthur Drew, was, jointly with Pompey Drew and Butler Shannon, charged by information with the larceny of a cow, the property of one Mose Burkley. When the case was called for trial, the defendant Pompey Drew had not been- apprehended, and the case was dismissed as to the-defendant Butler Shannon.

The evidence on the part of the prosecution tends to prove the following facts: That Mose Burkley and the defendant were neighbors, living about two miles south of Tullahassee; that Burkley missed his red and white speckled cow, branded 5 and 8 on the right hip, about July 1,…