Hardesty v. People

*4511. Defendant' Hardesty was convicted of feloniously killing a V-bar steer, the property of John Vroman. The animal was butchered Friday, December 4, 1908, in the defendant’s corral, and its hide hung on the fence, where the following Sunday it was examined by Vroman, stock inspector Lee, and the defendant.

2. Three days before the animal was butchered, defendant hired two men, named Harris and Bacon, to work for him. Bacon knew of the killing, and Harris was an eye witness, to the whole transaction. Before the trial these two men were secretly procured and kept with ■the jailer, as witnesses…