Mickle v. United States

RINER, District Judge.

The plaintiff in error, Ed Mickle, was indicted by the grand jury sitting within and for the central district of the Indian Territory for the larceny of four hogs, the property of Enoch Kindle. The indictment was returned on the 15th of November, 1904, and charged that the larceny was committed on the 20th of December, 1902. A trial was had on the 15th of March, 1905, the plaintiff in error convicted and sentenced to two years in the penitentiary. He filed a motion for a new trial, which was overruled. He then took an appeal to the United States Court of Appeals in the…