State v. Foster

Leo Foster appeals from a judgment of conviction for the crime of grand larceny. He is charged with stealing a leather pocketbook of the value of fifty cents and its contents of $29.40 in money from one James Anderson.

On March 4, 1935, the complaining witness, who lives in southern Nelson county, went to Lakota and took with him one Leonard Walhood. Walhood had no money. While at Lakota he borrowed $1 from Anderson and spent it for food and beer. Walhood obtained three one hundred pound sacks of potatoes from the relief office in Lakota. He and Anderson started home about 4 o’clock in the…