State v. Cox

— Defendant’s appeal from his conviction of the crime of larceny of domestic animals questions the sufficiency of the evidence to support the verdict. Defendant ivas about twenty-seven years old and was living with his parents on a farm near New Sharon in August and the first part of September- in 1947.

The indictment charged defendant with stealing six head of cattle, the property of one Madison Hull of Mahaska county. The record shows that Hull purchased eight head of red cattle from a sales barn in Grinnell about August 8, 1947. Millard Cox, defendant’s father, was occupying a farm near New…