Hart v. State

Hart was convicted of cow-stealing, and he excepts to the overruling of his motion for a new trial. He contended that he was a butcher and bought the cow in question, in good faith, from John Owen (a witness for the State), believing that Owen was the owner of the cow. He killed and butchered the cow in a swamp, near where it was pastured, at a considerable distance from the public road, late in the afternoon, and brought the meat away in the night, and sold the hide and meat the following day, in the immediate neighborhood.

1. One of the grounds of the motion for a new trial is that the court…