Longshore v. State

Waite Longshore, plaintiff in error, here referred to as the defendant, was convicted in the district court of Major county on January 13, 1922, of the larceny of an automobile, the property of one J. B. Nightengale, and his punishment was by the court assessed at imprisonment in the state penitentiary for a term of five years.

The defendant, a young man 24 years of age, an ex-service man, was a resident of Buffalo, Okla. He came to Fair-view on November 11, 1921, in search of work, and that evening met H. B. Mitchell, a man whom he had known in Harper county. The defendant was by trade an…