Gould v. State

At tbe September, 1903, term of the district court for Merrick county, one Richard Gould was tried and convicted of the crime of child stealing. After his motion for a new trial was overruled, the court sentenced him to imprisonment in the penitentiary of this state for the period of 6 years. To reverse that sentence he prosecuted error to this court, and will hereafter be called the plaintiff.

In the first assignment of error the plaintiff complains because the father of Eva Flint, the child charged in the information to have been stolen or enticed away, was allowed to remain seated near her…