McFarland v. State
Supreme Court of Kansas
Criminal Appeal from Wyandotte County. The appellant in this case was tried in Wyandotte county, on an information originally filed against him before the criminal court of Leavenworth county, and taken to Wyandotte for trial on a change of venue.
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Criminal Appeal from Wyandotte County. The appellant in this case was tried in Wyandotte county, on an information originally filed against him before the criminal court of Leavenworth county, and taken to Wyandotte for trial on a change of venue. The charge was larceny, based on sec. 274 of the crimes and punishments act of 1859, which reads as follows: “Every person who shall steal, or obtain by robbery, the property of another, in any other territory, state or country, and shall bring the same into this territory, may be convicted and punished for larceny, in the same manner as if such…
1Opinion of the Court
By the Court,
Bailey, J.
The record in this case presents two questions for the consideration of this court, viz :
1. Does the information sufficiently charge an offense punishable by the laws of this state ?
2. Did the court err in its ruling, as to the admission of evidence, or in its instructions to the jury? . And, first, as to the information. We have no doubt as to the power of the legislature to provide for the punishment of the offense defined by sec. 274, of the crimes and punishment act, which consists, not in stealing property in another state or territory, but in bringing property…
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