Legal Opinion

State v. Peterson

Supreme Court of Kansas

Decided January 15, 1888PublishedCited by 15 opinions

Appeal from Saline District Court. Prosecution for grand larceny. From a conviction and sentence at the November Term, 1886, the defendant Peterson appeals. The material facts appear in the opinion.

1Opinion of the Court

The opinion of the court was delivered by

Valentine, J.:

This was a criminal prosecution in the district court of Saline county, in which the defendant Eloph Peterson was charged with the crime of grand larceny in the stealing of 34 head of cattle, the property of John H. Prescott. The offense was committed, if at all, about June 8, 1886. Atrial was had before the court and a jury in December, 1886, and the defendant was found guilty and sentenced to imprisonment in the penitentiary for the term of five years. He now appeals to this court. He alleges for error, as follows:

“1st. The overruling…

2Cases cited1 opinion

  1. State v. PfefferleSupreme Court of Kansas · 1886

3Cited by15 opinions

  1. Kinard v. United StatesCourt of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit · 1938
  2. Kreiner v. United StatesCourt of Appeals for the Second Circuit · 1926
  3. State of Kansas v. RobertsSupreme Court of Kansas · 1915
  4. Hamilton v. Atchison, Topeka & Santa Fe Railway Co.Supreme Court of Kansas · 1915
  5. Stassi v. United StatesCourt of Appeals for the Eighth Circuit · 1931

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