State of Oregon v. Black

The defendant, George M. Black, was tried and found guilty and sentenced upon an indictment, the charging part of which is as follows:

“The said George M. Black on the 19th day of July A.D. 1947, in the said County of Malheur and State of Oregon, then and there being, did then and there unlawfully and feloniously take, steal and carry away a certain cow and calf, then and there being the personal property of one, Gerrit Smit.”

From this judgment he appeals.

One of the basic contentions underlying many of defendant’s twenty-two allegations of error is the assertion of an insufficient proof of…