Duncan v. State

The plaintiff in error, L. Curk Duncan, was convicted of the crime of cattle stealing in the district court for Cheyenne county. He was thereupon sentenced to a term of three years’ imprisonment in the state penitentiary, and from that judgment he prosecutes error.

But one question is argued in his brief, and that is that the verdict is not sustained by sufficient evidence. An examination of the record discloses that it contains no legal bill of exceptions. At the close of the transcript we find the following certificate: “State of Nebraska, Cheyenne County ss.: I, R. E. Barrett, clerk of the…