Baugh v. State

Graves, Judge.

Appellant was convicted of cattle theft, and given a prison sentence of two years.

On July 21, 1937, Mr. Bob Christian lost a two-year-old steer. Seven days thereafter he, in company with others, followed cow tracks that he testified were his steer’s tracks, which were accompanied by a man’s tracks, which he testified exactly fit appellant’s shoes, through five fences into appellant’s field. On the 24th of July Mr. Christian went to a hide buying storage house and identified one out of three exhibited red hides as having come off his steer, and then to an ice storage company and…