State v. Peterson

LARSON, Chief Justice.

Verio J. Peterson was convicted of grand larceny upon information charging him with stealing one heifer from Willis McBride. He appeals and complains that the evidence was insufficient to justify the verdict; that the court erred in the admission and in the rejection of certain evidence; that the court erred in instructing the jury and in refusing to grant a new trial for the misconduct of a juror who failed to reveal that he was a brother-in-law of the complaining witness’s sister.

The evidence introduced and relied upon to support the charge was as follows:

The heifer…