State v. Musgang
Supreme Court of Minnesota
Gustav A. Musgang was indicted for larceny and convicted in the District Court of Bamsey County. A question of law arose on the trial which, in the opinion of that court, was so doubtful as to require the decision of this court.
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Gustav A. Musgang was indicted for larceny and convicted in the District Court of Bamsey County. A question of law arose on the trial which, in the opinion of that court, was so doubtful as to require the decision of this court. The defendant desiring it, the case was reported so as to present the question and certified here. 1878 ■G. S. ch. 117, § 11. Horace G. Bobinson was a clerk in the office of the general manager of the Northern Pacific Bailroad Company, and wrongfully took a lot of blank trip passes, and forged upon them the fictitious mame W. H. Burrell, and sold them to Musgang.…
1Opinion of the CourtYanderburgh, J.
The defendant was convicted of the offense of grand larceny in the second degree, committed by stealing passage tickets completed and ready to be delivered. The indictment was *557framed under section 423, Pen. Code, which provides that “all the provisions of the chapter relating to the subject of larceny,” etc., “should apply to cases where the property taken is an instrument for the payment of money, * * * or a passage ticket completed and ready to be issued or delivered, although the same has never been issued or delivered by the maker thereof to any person as a purchaser or owner.”
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2Cases cited1 opinion
- Haug v. HauganSupreme Court of Minnesota · 1892
3Cited by4 opinions
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