State v. Leeper

Stevens, J. —

I. The grand jury of Decatur County, on August 5, 1921, returned an indictment against appellant, jointly charging him and one Roy Dillon with the theft of a Dodge automobile from John Hardin, who resided near Line-ville in that county. Appellant was given a separate trial, as the result of which he was convicted and sentenced- to an indeterminate term of not to exceed five years in the state reformatory at Anamosa. The sufficiency of the evidence to convict is not challenged. Numerous alleged errors of the court in ruling upon objections to testimony and in the instructions to…