Lawhorn v. State

BROOKS, Judge.

Appellant was convicted of horse theft. When the case was called for trial appellant presented his first application for continuance, among other things, for want of the testimony of Mrs. Josephine Pickens, by whom he proposed to prove, in substance, that she (Mrs. Pickens) saw a negro pass her house riding one horse and leading a claybank horse, which claybank horse was subsequently claimed by prosecuting witness Snellgrove. Appellant’s defense was that he bought the horse, for the theft of which he was being tried, from said mulatto negro. The witness was properly subpoenaed,…