Brown v. State

The defendant in the court below, who is plaintiff in error here, was convicted in the district court for Cherry county of the crime of stealing cattle and was sentenced to seven years in the penitentiary. He has brought the case here for review.

1. The first objection made by the defendant is that the court refused to require the prosecuting attorney to elect upon which count of the information he would proceed. One count of the information charged the defendant with stealing cattle and another count charged him with receiving the cattle, knowing that they had been stolen. Larceny and…