State v. Sally

The defendant was tried for and convicted of the crime of larceny by stealing a steer, the property of one E. H. Powers. From the judgment which followed he appeals on the ground that the court erred in overruling his motion to direct a verdict of acquittal, in the admission of testimony, and the giving and refusing of certain instructions to the jury. From the evidence it appears that on the afternoon of October 26, 1901, the defendant butchered an animal alleged by the prosecution to have been a steer belonging to Mr. Powers; that he cut the hide into four or five pieces and on the…