Battle v. State

The defendant was charged with hog stealing. The owner of the hog testified: "I lost a hog sometime in June or July, 1935. . . I missed the hog in Lee County in the year 1935. . . I missed the hog in June or July, 1935.” The evidence was sufficient to authorize the jury to find that the venue was proved in Lee County.

The judge charged the jury, "that the possession of property proved to have been recently stolen, if that possession is not satisfactorily explained to the jury, is a circumstance that you would have a right to consider along with the other evidence in the case, in determining…