Jacks v. State

KRUEGER, Judge. —

Appellant was convicted of the offense of theft of hogs, and his punishment was assessed at confinement in the state penitentiary for a term of two years.

Appellant’s main contention is that the evidence is insufficient to sustain his conviction. In order that this opinion may reflect the ground upon which our conclusion is based we deem it proper to set out the salient facts proven by the State which are as follows:

O. B. Woods testified that he had several hundred hogs running on the range near Irish Bayou in San Augustine County; that on or about the 1st day of February,…