Davis v. State

Appellant was indicted and convicted in the circuit court of Lamar county of the larceny of (quoting from the indictment) “one red steer yearling with white forehead,” the personal "property of Henry Thornhill. He was convicted of petit larceny and ‘sentenced to six months’ imprisonment in the county jail. From that judgment he prosecutes this appeal.

Henry Thornhill owned something like two hundred head of cattle. Some of them were running on the open range. A fourteen month old steer was missing. In a search for it its head was found, two forefeet, and a piece of its hide about the size of a…