State v. Harras

The opinion of the court was delivered by

Mount, J.

Appellant, charged with the crime of cattle stealing, was convicted in the superior court of Walla Walla county on April 20, 1900, and was sentenced to a term in the penitentiary. Appeal was taken to this court, alleging numerous errors of the trial court in its instructions to the jury. The first error complained of is that the court refused, on request, to give an instruction relative to the possession of recently stolen property. The evidence in the case is not before us, but it seems to be conceded that one J. E. Kirkland was the owner of…