Hilyard v. State

The defendant, Dewey Hilyard, was charged by information filed in the district court of Mus kogee county with the crime of grand larceny, was tried before a jury, convicted, and his punishment fixed at imprisonment in the State Penitentiary for a term of five years. Appeal has been perfected to this court.

The evidence on the part of the state to support the conviction of the defendant was purely circumstantial. The prosecuting witness, J. H. Beasley, testified that he was in the steel erection and construction business in Muskogee, that he had lived there since 1943, on Elmira street; that he…