State v. McNamara

DUNN, Justice.

This is an appeal from a conviction of grand theft of livestock under SDCL 22-30A-17.1 We affirm.

Jan McNamara (appellant) was employed by the Fall River Feedlot (feedlot), a commercial cattle feeding operation, as an assistant to the feedlot yard foreman. Appellant’s duties at the feedlot included riding pens, doctoring and moving cattle, taking care of horses, and, in the event heifers in the feedlot had calves, selling those calves.

On or about August 30, 1980, appellant had a discussion with the lot manager at the feedlot concerning the possibility of a purchase of calves for…