State v. Lyford

The defendant was convicted of grand larceny. His motion for a new trial was overruled, and he appealed from the judgment.

The information, as amended without objection at the time of the trial, described the subject of the larceny as “one white-faced yearling steer, branded with the brand P S on the left hip, * * * then and there being owned by and the property of Peter Scheffer.”

The evidence introduced by the state shows that defendant in July and August, 1929, was employed by S. Manheimer as foreman on the latter’s ranch in Missoula county; defendant was to receive certain wages and…