Aaberg v. People

Plaintiff in error, hereinafter referred to as defendant, was convicted of the larceny of certain personal property of the value of $690 and sentenced to the penitentiary for a term of four to six years. To review that judgment he prosecutes this writ, assigning thirty-two alleged errors. Some of these appear to have merit, but we limit ourselves to No. 10 which is that, the court erroneously overruled defendant’s motion for a directed verdict at the close of people’s evidence.

The information charged that the property stolen was “the personal property of Joe A. Worsham.” Having so alleged the…