State v. Simanton

The defendant, William Simanton, has appealed from a judgment of conviction of the crime of grand larceny on which he was sentenced to serve one year in the state prison, and from an order denying him a new trial.

The charge was the larceny of one “mouse-colored iron gray mare,” the property of Joseph Le Carno. The appeal challenges the correctness of the court’s rulings on the admission of testimony as to, other like offenses, the sufficiency of the evidence to support the verdict and- judgment, and certain instructions given by the court.

The evidence on behalf of the state sufficiently…