De Ford v. State

KRUEGER, Judge.

The offense is theft of cattle. The punishment assessed is confinement in the State penitentiary for a term of two years.

The record shows that appellant and John Taylor were neighbors; that their residences were located approximately 400 or 500 yards apart; that on or about the 8th day of February, 1940, appellant took two Jersey calves belonging to Mr. Taylor without his consent and carried them to Dallas, where he sold them to Swift & Company. About eight o’clock on the morning of the day of the alleged theft, Mr. Taylor passed within a short distance of the appellant’s cow…