Greenough v. State

Plaintiff in error, who will hereafter be referred to as the defendant, was convicted of the crime of larceny of property valued by the jury at $55, and a sentence of five years in the state penitentiary was imposed.

*21The record discloses that a gasoline station in Ainsworth, Nebraska, belonging to Nicholas A. Sawyer was broken into on the night of February 11, 1938, and robbed of five new automobile tires. It further appears that the defendant and a companion appeared in Valentine, Nebraska, early in the morning of February 12, 1938, and sold’the tires to a tire dealer for $2.50 each when…