Runnels v. State

BEAUCHAMP, Judge.

The appeal is from a conviction for hog theft with punishment of two years in the penitentiary.

The facts of the case are brief. Appellant, together with two other parties who lived out of the county, named Matthews and Leatherwood, on the afternoon of November 10, 1946, had been at the home of a negro where they were engaged, with others, in gambling. These three left about 5 o’clock in the afternoon. Along the road they saw some hogs. While the evidence is not perfectly clear, it seems that they were in the roadway but ran through a fence into a pasture. Runnels told the two…