State v. Kappas

LARSON, Justice.

The defendants, Sam Kappas and George Katsarelis, were convicted of the crime of grand larceny, and the defendant Kappas appeals. The information charged them with the stealing of 80 lambs from E. P. Bastían and W. L. Bastían on the 15th day of November, 1938, in the County of Salt Lake.

The evidence to support the charge was, briefly, as follows: The Bastians, who owned a herd of sheep, counted them at their ranch at Lark, Utah, on the 10th of November. Later, their herder, Fred Chavis, missed a marker, so another count was made between the 15th and the 25th of the same month.…