Ray v. State

BAKER, Judge.

Appellant was convicted in the District Court of Erath County of the offense of cattle theft, and his punishment assessed at two years in the penitentiary.

The trial in this case involved the ownership of a certain Jersey cow about five years old. The prosecuting witness Wood, together with other State Witnesses, testified that the cow in question belonged to him, and that he missed her from his pasture about the 7th of May, 1924, and never saw her any more until he saw her in the possession of one Jack Allen about the 1st of January, 1925. The appellant as a witness in his own…