Hilligas v. State

Ryan, C.

In the district court of Merrick county plaintiff in error was convicted upon a charge of larceny of three calves, and was thereupon sentenced to imprisonment in the penitentiary at hard labor for the period of three and one-half years.

H. Wieger was the owner of seventeen calves previous to and on May 26, 1897. From these, three were stolen in the night-time between May 25 and May 26, 1897. Two days afterward Wieger found these three calves in the possession of Mr. McGinley, who had, on said May 26, purchased them, with four others, from one Charles Gregory. Mr. Wieger resided at that…