Holthus v. State

Plaintiff in error, hereafter referred to as the defendant, was convicted of the crime of cattle stealing, and sentenced to serve from three to five years in the state reformatory.

The record shows that on November 22, 1938, one Addie Hull purchased some cattle at Fairbury, Nebraska, which were transported to Pawnee City, Nebraska, by trucks during the night of the same day. The cattle were unloaded at the Fink stockyards shortly after midnight. On the following morning four of the cattle were missing. They were described as a white-faced cow, weight 1,165 pounds; a white-faced polled heifer,…