State v. Demain

The opinion of the court was delivered by

Dawson, J.:

The defendant, John Demain, was convicted of grand larceny for the theft of a load of wheat, and appeals.

It appears that two men, Snyder and Stegman, landlord and tenant, had about 9,000 bushels of wheat in a bin on a farm in Ford county at some distance northwest of Offerle, Edwards county. Defendant lived about two and one-half miles from this wheat bin. Stegman had been hauling wheat from that bin, and in cleaning up spilled grain he had gathered up some cobs and a bit of wood and threw them into the bin. On the night of January 12, 1928,…