State v. Delanty

On March 14, 1928, the grand jury of Potta-wattamie County, at Council Bluffs, returned an indictment against the defendant-appellant, charging him with the crime of larceny, as follows:

“* * * The said John Delanty, on or about the 17th day of October, 1927, * * * did willfully, unlawfully, and feloniously take, steal, and carry away a certain domestic animal, to wit,' a boar hog, of the value of $75, and the property of Chris Christensen * #

To that indictment the appellant, who. was then defendant, pleaded “not guilty.”

The State offered evidence tending to show that Chris Christensen was a…