Wooten v. State

The defendant, Alvin Wooten, was charged by information filed in Bryan county with the larceny of cattle; was tried, convicted, and sentenced to serve a term of five years in the penitentiary, and has appealed.

The conviction of the defendant, Alvin Wooten, grew out of the larceny of two head of cattle: “One three year old brindled white face steer; one pale red face, one year old bull,” the property of Granville Baxter, a resident of Bryan county. The record reveals that these cattle, together with other cattle belonging to Mr. Baxter, had been placed in the “Turnbull pasture” in Bryan county…