Blount v. State

DAVIDSON, Judge.

This is a conviction for hog-theft, the verdict being two years’ confinement in the penitentiary.

When found in possession of the hogs, with their ears freshly cut and marks changed, appellant proposed to sell the hogs and pay the owner the proceeds of the sale, and later he offered to and did return them to the owner. This evidence does not bring these offers and the return of the property within the terms of the statute reducing the punishment where the stolen property is voluntarily returned by the taker. This was not a voluntary return of the property. Willson’s Crim.…