State of S. Dak. v. Bachelor

This appeal is from a judgment of conviction of the crime of grand larceny; appellant being charged with being an accessory before the fact. The property stolen was a two year old heifer alleged to have been the property of one Birthol B. Brown. The actual taking of said heifer was by one James D. Cole. The information upon which appellant was tried originally contained three counts, but the trial court sustained a demurrer to count 3 and the state dismissed count 2. The charging part of count 1 upon which appellant was tried reads as follows:

“Comes now John Geo. Day, the duly elected,…