Mooney v. State

PRENDERGAST, Presiding Judge.

Appellant was convicted for receiving and concealing stolen cattle, knowing they were stolen, and his punishment fixed at the lowest authorized by law.

He was formerly convicted of the same offense and his punishment fixed at the highest authorized by law, but under a different indictment. The former conviction was reversed because the indictment therein averred the theft, and receiving and concealing, both occurred in Wheeler County, when the charge of the court authorized his conviction if the theft occurred in Wheeler but the receiving, etc., occurred in…