State v. Razor

The opinion of the court was delivered by

Hopkins, J.:

The defendants were convicted of the larceny of hogs, and appeal, contending chiefly that the court erred in permitting the state during the trial to change the date of the alleged commission of the offense, thereby preventing the defendants from relying on a defense of alibi. Also, in unduly restricting the cross-examination of the state’s witnesses. We have given due consideration to these contentions but cannot concur therein.

A claim that the state’s witnesses first laid the commission of the crime as of March 27, 1926, and that later on…