State v. Peterson
Montana Supreme Court
Appeal from District Court, Flathead County; J. E. Erickson, Judge. John W. Peterson was convicted of grand larceny, and from •the judgment and an order denying him a new trial he appeals.
1Opinion of the CourtJustice Holloway
John W. Peterson was convicted of the crime of grand larceny and sentenced to imprisonment to the penitentiary for a *110term of ten years. Prom the judgment and an order denying him a new trial, he has appealed.
Numerous specifications of error are made in appellant’s brief, but it will be necessary to notice but a few of them. For a definition of “larceny,” the trial court, in instruction No. 3, gave section 880 of the Penal Code, and, for a definition of “grand larceny,” undertook to give section 883 of the same Code, as amended by an Act of February 23, 1897 (Laws 1897, p. 247). In instruction…
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