People v. Dowd

Defendant was charged with and convicted of larceny of a quantity of wheat, 100 bushels, of the value of $100, the' property of Smith D. Standley, who had, in a locked granary on his farm, of which defendant was tenant, several hundred bushels' of wheat, which, except, for 4 or 5 bushels, disappeared between March, 1929, and November, 1929. At the trial there was searching inquiry of whether the wheat might have been lost by means other than somebody’s criminality..

The principal question presented is that the prosecution -failed to establish the corpus delicti, and that the court erred in…