State v. Autheman

For the killing of Charles Boston, John Autheman appeals from a judgment of conviction of murder of the second degree.

On June 28, 1927, on information that a “crazy sheepherder” had jumped on the running-board of a boy’s car and forced the boy, Elmer Terry, to take him “somewhere up the canyon,” one Sloat, a deputy sheriff of Bannock county, proceeded to search for the boy and his alleged abductor. "While so engaged, Sloat “deputized” Charles Boston and Tom Richardson to assist him. At a roadside garage, where the Terry ear had been stopped for a supply of gasoline, Sloat and Boston found…