Slaughter v. State

Citations

• 7 Tex. Ct. App. 123

Syllabus

<p>1. Altering Cattle-Brands. — If, with fraudulent intent, the defendant altered the brand on an animal, the property of some other person, into a different brand, the statutory offence of fraudulently altering a brand is complete, no matter what the instrument or means by which the alteration was effected.</p> <p>2. Same. — To constitute an alteration of a brand, it is not necessary that the original scar has been changed; the alteration may, as in the present case, he done by so clipping the hair on the original brand as to change it into another one.</p> <p>3. Practice. — When the evidence tends to establish opposite conclusions, it is for the jury to find their verdict on that which they deem most credible; and if the judge who tried the cause has refused to set aside the verdict found on such evidence, the conviction will not he disturbed on appeal.</p> <p>4. Evidence of Intent. —Note in the opinion facts in proof deemed ample to show that the brand was altered with a fraudulent intent.</p>