Harris v. State

The defendant was convicted of the larceny of a cow and calf, the personal property of W. S. Kelley. The evidence shows that defendant owned and occupied a plantation in Pike cpunty adjoining the plantation occupied by Kelley, that the defendant was engaged in buying cattle, and that such cattle as he bought were marked and branded by him and turned on his plantation in Pike county to pasture through the winter months, and in the spring they were removed to another plantation in, Montgomery county, some 12 or 13 miles from the Pike county plantation.

The cow in question was a milch cow, and…