State v. Townsend
Oregon Supreme Court
Appeal from Umatilla county: Jas. A. Fee, judge. The defendant was jointly indicted with, others, and convicted of the crime of larceny of a cow, charged to have been committed on the fourteenth day of January, 1889. One Jed Beal, a co-defendant, testified as an accomplice to the particulars of the stealing of the cow by the defendant and himself. The evidence corroborative of the accomplice Beal, testified to by one Charles Stencil, was as follows.
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Appeal from Umatilla county: Jas. A. Fee, judge. The defendant was jointly indicted with, others, and convicted of the crime of larceny of a cow, charged to have been committed on the fourteenth day of January, 1889. One Jed Beal, a co-defendant, testified as an accomplice to the particulars of the stealing of the cow by the defendant and himself. The evidence corroborative of the accomplice Beal, testified to by one Charles Stencil, was as follows. “About January 14, 1889, I was at Frank Beal’s place, about four miles from town. At one time that night, I think about 8 o’clock P. M., Jed Beal…
1Opinion of the CourtLord, J.
The question raised is, whether the testimony of the accomplice Beal was sufficiently corroborated to sustain the verdict and. judgment. The testimony of the accomplice is full, stating the circumstances in detail unde? which he and the defendant, on the night charged, stole *215the cow from the pasture of her owner, drove her to the slaughter pen in Pendleton, and delivered her to the other co-defendants, as had been previously arranged, where she was slaughtered. The contention for the defendant is, that the corroborative evidence only shows that he was in the vicinity where the crime was…
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