Buthman v. State

Carl Buthman brings this proceeding in error to review a judgment of conviction in the district court of the crime of cattle stealing. He was sentenced to ten years in the penitentiary.(1) One assignment of error is that the state failed to prove that the cattle stolen were of some value. Section 28-515, Comp. St. 1929, provides that whoever steals a cow, steer, bull, heifer, or calf of any value shall be punished. The question presented here has been passed upon by this court several times. In Cochran v. State, 122 Neb. 79, 239 N. W. 471, it was held that it was not necessary for the…