Roberts v. State
Wyoming Supreme Court
Error to the District Court, Sheridan County, Hon. Joseph D. Stotts, Judge. George A. Roberts was charged by information filed in the District Court in and for Sheridan County, in two counts, with the larceny of certain neat cattle. The prosecution elected to prosecute upon the first count.
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Error to the District Court, Sheridan County, Hon. Joseph D. Stotts, Judge. George A. Roberts was charged by information filed in the District Court in and for Sheridan County, in two counts, with the larceny of certain neat cattle. The prosecution elected to prosecute upon the first count. The State relied upon possession by the defendant of the animals alleged to have been stolen, and proof that defendant had obliterated the brand of the owners and placed his own or his wife's brand upon the animals. The'defendant claimed that he had purchased the animals from one of the witnesses for the…
1Opinion of the Court
Knight, Justice.
The plaintiff in error was convicted of stealing live stock of the value of $25, and on January 2d, 1902, sentenced to three and one-half years in the penitentiary.
The claim of the defendant (plaintiff in error here) was that he had purchased the steer in question from one Zelce Arrington, one of the witnesses for the State, and subsequently placed his own or his wife’s brand on the steer, but denied that at the time he so branded the animal it was already branded with the brand of the owners, as testified to by several witnesses for the State. Of the many errors claimed, the…
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