State v. Wiseback

The defendant appeals from a judgment on a verdict which found him guilty of grand larceny, in stealing a certain brown horse, for which felonious equine appropriation he was awarded three years in the penitentiary.

*215The following agreed statement of facts, so far as necessary to quote the same, is incoi’porated in the bill of exceptions:

“State of Missouri v. “John Wiseback. }

“Eor the purposes of this appeal the following are agreed to be the facts: that defendant stole the horse at the time and place charged in the indictment, from the possession of Jas. Swiney who had taken up same as a stray…