Selby v. State
Indiana Supreme Court
From Fayette Circuit Court; Raymond S. Springer, Judge. Prosecution by tbe State of Indiana against Claude Selby. From a judgment of conviction, tbe defendant appeals.
1Opinion of the CourtEwbank, J.
The indictment on which appellant was tried charged him with the larceny of four chickens, of the value of $6, the property of Henry Suhre. To this indictment he pleaded, “Not guilty.”
1. There was evidence that, on Saturday, September 14,1918, Henry Suhre, for whom appellant was working as a farm hand on a farm in Fayette county, left home with his wife for a visit, telling appellant that when he had finished certain work he might take the employer’s spring wagon and horse and drive to the home of his wife’s parents, fourteen miles away in the same county; that persons who passed appellant on…
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