Legal Opinion
State v. Taran
Supreme Court of Minnesota
Decided January 4, 1929No. Nos. 27,113, 27,184PublishedCited by 7 opinions
1Opinion of the CourtStone, J.
Convicted of grand larceny in the first degree, defendant Sam Taran appeals from the order denying his motion for a new trial and also from the judgment.
Taran was indicted jointly with one Mark G. Wynn, but had a separate trial. The principal witness against him was Wynn. The indictment charges the two with grand larceny perpetrated by false pretenses. Briefly, the testimony for the state is to the effect that in February, 1927, Taran, by force, actual violence and threats of more, with the assistance of several “gunmen,” made Wynn his prisoner for ten days, and that during that time he…
2Cases cited8 opinions
- Sullivan v. Minneapolis Street Railway Co.Supreme Court of Minnesota · 1924
- State v. AmesSupreme Court of Minnesota · 1904
- Brown v. PeopleMichigan Supreme Court · 1868
- Hewitt v. CoreyMassachusetts Supreme Judicial Court · 1890
- Presley Fruit Co. v. St. Louis, Iron Mountain & Southern Railway Co.Supreme Court of Minnesota · 1915
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3Cited by7 opinions
- In Re Estate of OlsonSupreme Court of Minnesota · 1929
- State v. ArmstrongSupreme Court of Minnesota · 1960
- Greene v. MathiowetzSupreme Court of Minnesota · 1942
- State v. PalmerSupreme Court of Minnesota · 1939
- Samuel H. Taran v. United StatesCourt of Appeals for the Eighth Circuit · 1959
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