Phelps v. People

This was an indictment against the plaintiffs in error and Hiram R. Phelps, their father, for the larceny of forty steers, under which the plaintiffs in error were convicted, at the March term, A. D. 1870, of the Iroquois county circuit court.

At the time of the alleged larceny, on the fourteenth day of October, 1869, there existed the following contract in writing between Richard Amerman, in whom the property was laid in the indictment, and Hiram B. Phelps, to-wit:

“Articles of Agreement, made and entered into by and between Richard Amerman and Hiram R. Phelps, both of Ashgrove township,…