State v. Keeland
Montana Supreme Court
Appeal from District Court, Custer County; C. H. Loud, Judge. Henry J. Keeland and Frank Randerhoff were convicted of grand larceny, and appeal from the judgment and from an order denying their motion for a new trial.
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Appeal from District Court, Custer County; C. H. Loud, Judge. Henry J. Keeland and Frank Randerhoff were convicted of grand larceny, and appeal from the judgment and from an order denying their motion for a new trial. They contended, inter alia: The corpus delicti in this case is the larceny of the live animals then and there being the property of Charles F. Bean; while the connection of the defendants with the meat might be sufficient proof of the corpus delicti of the larceny of the meat itself, if they were charged with stealing that, it cannot be of the live animals. Proof as to the…
1Opinion of the CourtChief Justice Brantly
The defendants were convicted of the crime of grand larceny, alleged to have been committed by them in Dawson county, by *508feloniously stealing, taking, leading, and driving away three heifers, of the value of $40, the property of Charles F. Bean. The animals are described as branded *17L ” on the left ribs and having a “swallow fork” in both ears. These appeals are from the judgment and an order denying their motion for a new trial.
1. It is contended that the evidence is insufficient to justify the verdict, in that there is no proof of the corpus delicti,—in other words, it is not shown that the…
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