State v. Harbeston

The defendant was charged with grand larceny by an information filed in the Circuit Court of Howell County. The venue was changed to the Circuit Court of Oregon County, • where the case was. tried before Honorable John E. Duncan, judge, of the 38th Judicial Circuit, as special judge, the regular judge of the Circuit Court of Oregon County having been disqualified. The jury found the defendant .“guilty as charged in the information” and assessed his punishment at imprisonment in the penitentiary for two years. He was sentenced accordingly, and in due course appealed.

A transcript of the record…