State v. Jackett

Appellant, charged with one Brosig with the larceny of a cow, was found guilty while Brosig was acquitted. Appellant assigns insufficiency of the evidence to sustain his conviction, urging inconsistency of such a conviction with the acquittal of his co-defendant.

An information, though joint in form, is regarded as a several charge against each defendant, where it charges an offense which may be committed by one person alone. (31 C. J., p. 757, see. 319.) And one defendant may be convicted thereunder, although another is acquitted. (16 C. J., p. 1104, sec. 2591; State v. Haynes, 83 Wash. 660,…