State v. Schumacher

Defendant Dale Leo Schumacher was charged in the district court for Sioux County, Nebraska, with grand larceny. The specific theft charged was of 60 storage batteries of the value of $120, the property of M. W. Didier. Trial was hiad to a jury which returned a verdict of guilty and fixed the value of the batteries at $81.25, thus finding defendant guilty of petit rather than grand larceny. We affirm the judgment of the district court.

One E. A. Pinney of Scottsbluff, Nebraska, was engaged in the part-time business of dealing in scrap metal and junked storage batteries. Defendant was his…