Johnston and Johnston v. State

HAWKINS, Judge.

Conviction is for theft of hogs, the punishment against each appellant being assessed at two years in the penitentiary.

On Friday night, September 27th, 1935, Arthur Pruitt, who lived near Quanah in Hardeman County, had two white hogs stolen from him. Pruitt and his family had been away from home on Friday night and discovered the hogs were gone from his pen about daylight on Saturday morning when he returned home. Car tracks made while he was away indicated that the vehicle had been backed up to the hog pen and the two animals loaded into it. The tracks showed that the car had…