State v. Moore

The opinion of the court was delivered by

Johnston, J.:

An information was filed on September 25, 1899, charging Alva Moore with the larceny of “one brown mare mule of the value of seventy-five dollars, one bay horse mule of the value of seventy-five dollars, one Racine one-horse top buggy, complete, of the value of sixty-five dollars, and one set of single buggy harness of the value of three dollars,” etc. The next term of the district court began on the first Tuesday of November, which was the day of the general election. On November 6, one of the attorneys employed to defend Moore, and who…