State v. Crank

The defendant was indicted- at the regular August term, 1881, of the Henry county circuit court, for larceny in stealing one steer, the property of one Calvird. He was convicted, on trial, of the offense charged,, and on his appeal to this court avers that the trial court-committed error-in instructing the jury.

It appears from the record that Calvird, who lived in. Henry county, missed the steer in question about the 26th-day of April, 1881, and in July following found it with a herd of cattle in Vernon county in charge of defendant; that the cattle in said herd belonged to various…