State v. Crossen

Appeal from a conviction of grand larceny. The information charged the appellant with stealing “from a pasture and range one head of neat cattle,” etc., and was evidently drawn under Rem. & Bal. Code, § 2605, subd. 4 (P. C. 135 § 703), including within the crime of grand larceny the unlawful taking of animals from any range or pasture. The defense was a taking under claim of right, appellant claim*439ing that he had purchased a calf from an Indian; that he went out on the range and drove in the calf he supposed he had purchased, and butchered it; and if the calf taken was the property of the…