Legal Opinion

James v. United States

Court Of Appeals Of Indian Territory

Decided September 26, 1907PublishedCited by 2 opinions

Error to the United States Court for the Central District of the Indian Territory; before Justice W. H. H. Clayton, March 14, 1906. Charley James was convicted of larceny of a horse, and he brings error.

1Opinion of the CourtLawrence, J.

Plaintiff, jointly with one McDaniel, was indicted for larceny of a horse. They were tried separately and plaintiff was found guilty, and sentenced to two years in the United States penitentiary at Ft. Leavenworth, Kan. He assigns nine grounds of error committed by the District Court in the trial of the cause. The first error by the court was the overruling of plaintiff in error’s objection to the testimony of witness Steve Kennedy and other witnesses on part of government, because the full name of the owner of the horse alleged to have been stolen did not appear in the indictment •but the…

2Cases cited2 opinions

  1. State v. JourdanSupreme Court of Arkansas · 1877
  2. State v. SeelySupreme Court of Arkansas · 1875

3Cited by2 opinions

  1. Dotterer v. StateIndiana Supreme Court · 1909
  2. Johnson v. StateCourt of Criminal Appeals of Texas · 1928

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