Staman v. State

The plaintiff was indicted with one Lewis Morrison for stealing a horse belonging to one Asa Birdsall, and on the trial was found guilty and sentenced to imprisonment in the penitentiary for ten years. It is unnecessary to consider in detail the very large number of errors assigned, as in our opinion the evidence wholly fails to warrant the verdict of guilty. The horse is alleged to have been stolen from a farm about two miles west of Hastings, on the night of September 21,1881, and with one stolen from a neighbor named Nash, is supposed to have been taken to the Platte river and secreted on…