People v. LaMunion

The respondent was convicted, in the Newaygo circuit, at the last September term, of the larceny of a yoke of oxen of the value of $100. The case comes before us for review on exceptions before judgment.

The record contains a bill of exceptions not including all the testimony, and from which it appears that the cattle stolen belonged to George Mowatt, a farmer, who lived at the time in the township of Croton, in Newaygo county; that the cattle were last seen by the owner on the twenty-fifth day of August, 1885, at about 2 o’clock in the afternoon; that he missed them the next morning about 9…