Pigg v. State

The appellant, Clarence Pigg, was convicted in the Clark Circuit Court on a charge of grand larceny, it being alleged that Pigg stole eight head of cattle, the property of Richard Gaston, on the 21st day of November, 1950. On appeal, appellant says that, exclusive of an extrajudicial confession, there is no evidence to establish the corpus delicti. Also urged as error is the refusal of the trial court to give one of appellant’s requested instructions.

As to the evidence, it was shown that eight of Gas-ton’s cattle disappeared shortly before Thanksgiving Day, 1950; that Pigg formerly worked for…