Coleman v. State

DAVIDSON, Presiding Judge.

Appellant was convicted of horse theft, his punishment being assessed at four years confinement in the penitentiary.

The ease is one of circumstantial evidence. The alleged owner, George West, testified that his horse was taken out of his lot at night. The next evening, about forty miles distant, appellant sold the horse. Appellant had a saddle that had some three months previously been stolen from the Witherspoon farm. Appellant claimed that he sold the horse with the authority of West; that he did not take it, nor the saddle, but they were sent to him by West…