State v. Hunsaker

On the sixteenth day of November, 1887, the defendant was indicted by the grand jury of Grant County, Oregon, for the crime of larceny, by stealing a horse. At the April term, 1888, of the Circuit Court of that county, he was tried before a jury and found guilty, and sentenced to the penitentiary, from which judgment he has appealed to this court. Upon the argument here there was no appearance by the district attorney, and we are therefore compelled to proceed to consider the case without the assistance of that officer; but as far as practicable, we have endeavored to examine fully the…