Quinn v. People

At the September term, 1887, of the Saline circuit court, John Quinn was tried, convicted, and sentenced to the penitentiary for ten years, on a charge of larceny and embezzlement, and the record of his conviction is now before us for review. The subject of the alleged larceny and embezzlement was a certain horse, the property of Sylvester Whitehead, a resident of Johnson county, which had been taken up as an estray by Stephen Straub, in the adjoining county of Saline. The indictment contains four counts. The first two are for larceny, the other two for embezzlement. The first and third lay…