State v. Repp
Supreme Court of Iowa
Appeal from Monroe District Court. — -Hon. Frank W. Eichelberger, Judge. • The defendant was convicted of the larceny of a swarm of bees, and from the judgment, imposing a fine of five dollars, he appeals.
1Opinion of the CourtLadd, J.
In July, 1895, Stevens found a bee tree on the land of Gody, and, without the latter’s permission, chopped it down, and put the bees in a gum obtained from Mosely. These were left near the fallen tree-, on Cody’s land. The gum was cut from ia tree on defendant’s land, without his knowledge or consent; and finding it, with the bees, where left by Stevens, he-removed them, ¡at dusk of day, to the orchard of his mother, and inclosed them in a telescope gum, about thirty-three inches square, nailed to- that procured from Mosely. This was unknown to the mother, whose residence was about one mile…
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