The People v. Barnard

Plaintiff in error was convicted in the circuit court of Vermilion county of the crime of larceny as bailee and brings error to reverse the judgment.

The complaining witness, Orlando K. Taylor, on or about December 30, 1926, shipped by express to plaintiff in error, at Danville, Illinois, two packages of furs, — a sack containing five mink, fifteen raccoon, twenty opossum and twenty-five muskrat hides, and a box containing twenty-five skunk hides. Enclosed with the shipment were invoice stubs showing the number of pieces of furs. On one appeared an endorsement in the complaining witness’…