State v. Snyder
Supreme Court of Minnesota
Defendant was indicted in the district court for Cottonwood county for stealing and carrying away in the nighttime from a granary building certain skins of the value of $38. He was tried before P. E. Brown, J., and a jury which returned a verdict of “guilty in manner and form as charged in the indictment” of the offense of grand larceny in-the second degree. The subsequent proceedings are narrated in the third paragraph of the opinion.
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Defendant was indicted in the district court for Cottonwood county for stealing and carrying away in the nighttime from a granary building certain skins of the value of $38. He was tried before P. E. Brown, J., and a jury which returned a verdict of “guilty in manner and form as charged in the indictment” of the offense of grand larceny in-the second degree. The subsequent proceedings are narrated in the third paragraph of the opinion. From the judgment entered pursuant to the sentence, and from the order denying motions to set aside the judgment, or to grant a new trial, defendant appealed.
1Opinion of the CourtLewis, J.
Subdivision 2, § 5081, E. L. 1905, provides that a person who steals or unlawfully obtains or appropriates the property of another of the value of more than $25, by taking the same in the nighttime from any building, is guilty of grand larceny in the first degree, and the punishment is imprisonment in the state prison for not less than one nor more than ten years. When the value of the property is less than $25, it is grand larceny in the second degree, and the punishment is imprisonment in the state prison for not more than *246five years, or by imprisonment in the county jail for not exceeding…
2Cases cited2 opinions
- State v. LindseyNevada Supreme Court · 1885
- Cohues v. FinholtSupreme Court of Minnesota · 1907
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- State v. MorrisSupreme Court of Minnesota · 1921
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