Fisher v. People
Michigan Supreme Court
Error to Kalamazoo Circuit. Fisher was charged on the information of the Prosecuting Attorney of the County of Kalamazoo, with the larceny of a heifer, “ of the goods, chattels and property of A. B. Dorrance.” On the trial Dorrance testified “that he had a light red heifer, which he turned into the road, and shortly afterwards missed her. That he bought the heifer and paid for it.
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Error to Kalamazoo Circuit. Fisher was charged on the information of the Prosecuting Attorney of the County of Kalamazoo, with the larceny of a heifer, “ of the goods, chattels and property of A. B. Dorrance.” On the trial Dorrance testified “that he had a light red heifer, which he turned into the road, and shortly afterwards missed her. That he bought the heifer and paid for it. That it was taken care of by him up to the time of being turned.intp the road. * * * That he bought the heifer of one Hiram Billings, and had furnished the pasture, and feed, and hay for it entirely since purchasing…
1Opinion of the CourtChristiancy, J.
The defendant was convicted of stealing a heifer, the property of one A. B. Dorrance.
The first error assigned is that the Court refused to charge, as specially requested, “ that, if the jury entertain a reasonable doubt as to whether the heifer in question was the property of A. B. Dorrance or Mary Dorrance, then the jury must give the benefit of that doubt to the respondent and acquit.”
As there was a dispute whether the heifer was the property of A. B. Dorrance, or that of his daughter, Mary Dorrance, and it is now claimed, that there was also a dispute whether it belonged to either of them,…
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