Bachman v. People

The defendant below, Frederick Bachman, was indicted for the crime of grand larceny at the March term, 1884, of the district court of Elbert county. He was tried and convicted at the same term, and sentenced to serve a term of one year and six months in the state penitentiary. The offense for which the defendant was convicted was that of stealing a heifer from the prosecuting witness, August Ehler, on the 5th day of November, A. D. 1883. Before sentence the defendant moved the court for a new trial: the principal grounds of the motion being insufficiency of the testimony to sustain the…