Legal Opinion

People v. Swasey

Utah Supreme Court

Decided January 15, 1889PublishedCited by 2 opinions

Appeal from a judgment of the' district court of tbe first district, and from an order denying a motion for a new trial. Part of the evidence is stated in the opinion; from the record appears other evidence tending to support the verdict, which is not noticed by the Court in its opinion.

1Opinion of the Court

Boreman, J.:

The defendant was indicted for knowingly marking the-sheep of another, it being alleged in the indictment that-*94on or about the 1st day of February, 1887, be “ did knowingly, intentionally, willfully, unlawfully and feloniously mark certain sheep, to-wit, about seventy-eight head of sheep, by then and there marking and cutting an under upper slope on each ear of said sheep, the said sheep being then and there the property of one Washburn Chip-man, with the intent thereby to cheat and defraud the said Chipman out of his property in said sheep.” The defendant was found guilty by the…

2Cases cited18 opinions

  1. Ingalls v. StateWisconsin Supreme Court · 1880
  2. Sahlinger v. PeopleIllinois Supreme Court · 1882
  3. State v. RaymondSupreme Court of Connecticut · 1878
  4. Garcia v. StateTexas Supreme Court · 1862
  5. Muldoon v. LynchCalifornia Supreme Court · 1885

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3Cited by2 opinions

  1. State v. PotelloUtah Supreme Court · 1911
  2. People v. HartUtah Supreme Court · 1894

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