Cook v. State

Defendant, Joe Cook, was charged in the district court of Okfuskee county with the crime of grand larceny, was tried, convicted and sentenced to serve a term of five years in the State Penitentiary at McAlester, and has appealed.

This defendant was charged jointly with one Clifford Capshaw with the larceny in Okfuskee county of “one four-inch Kelly joint of the value of $400, the property of one C. M. Serán.”

This property is an iron or steel rod about 40 feet in length, with a device which attaches to a rotary rig used in the drilling of oil wells. It was located on land where a well had been…