State v. Wilson

— The defendants in this action were charged jointly with the crime of stealing six head of neat cattle, the *57property of one iicCorkle, which cattle were at the time running at large upon the public range, in Thurston county. The defendants were jointly tried, and a verdict of guilty returned. A motion for new trial was denied, and judgment was entered by which each of the defendants was sentenced to three years’ imprisonment in the state penitentiary. Both defendants appealed, and it is conceded that, after the appeal was perfected, the defendant Currie died. The appeal is therefore…