Chesnut v. People
Supreme Court of Colorado
Error to the District Court of Weld County. At the November term of the district court of Weld county two separate informations were duly filed against the plaintiff in error, charging him with the larceny of certain neat cattle, as follows (omitting the formal part) : “No. 570 “The People of the State of Colorado v. Robert Chesnut. } Information.
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Error to the District Court of Weld County. At the November term of the district court of Weld county two separate informations were duly filed against the plaintiff in error, charging him with the larceny of certain neat cattle, as follows (omitting the formal part) : “No. 570 “The People of the State of Colorado v. Robert Chesnut. } Information. “That Robert Chesnut, late of the county of Weld and state of Colorado, on or about the first day of September, in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and ninety-four, at and within the county aforesaid, one cow and one steer, being two…
1Opinion of the CourtJustice Goddard
The foregoing statement is sufficient to present -the ques*517tions discussed and relied on by the plaintiff in error for a reversal. The first is that the court erred in rendering judgment upon the verdict and in sentencing the plaintiff in error, because the informations do not set out or state any value of the property alleged to have been stolen. The in-formations are based upon the following statute, found on page 130, Session Laws of 1891, which enacts:
- “ Section 1. Any person who shall steal, embezzle or unlawfully kill, sell, drive, lead or ride away, or in any manner unlawfully deprive…
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- Territory of Montana v. PendryMontana Supreme Court · 1889
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