State v. Keelen
Oregon Supreme Court
From Union: J. W. Knowles, Judge. Department 2. The defendant was jointly indicted with one Dooley and charged with the larceny of one Ford automobile, the personal property of George Robertson. As a result of a separate trial, the defendant Keelen was found guilty and judgment of conviction entered against him, from which he has appealed.
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From Union: J. W. Knowles, Judge. Department 2. The defendant was jointly indicted with one Dooley and charged with the larceny of one Ford automobile, the personal property of George Robertson. As a result of a separate trial, the defendant Keelen was found guilty and judgment of conviction entered against him, from which he has appealed. At the trial it appeared that George Robertson purchased the car from M. J. Goss about November 5, 1920. Robertson is a laboring man, and had come to La Grande a few days before he purchased the automobile. There he met Dooley, who was jointly indicted with…
1Opinion of the CourtMcCOURT, J.
— Defendant assigns as error the action of the court in overruling his motion to require the state to make an election of the act that the state claimed constituted “the act of larceny or felonious taking — whether the time the car was turned over to Dooley near Hilgard, or the time it was taken from Hilton’s Garage, or at the time it was sold by Dooley to Teeters.” Defendant’s motion was made after the statement of the prosecuting attorney to the jury had been made and before any testimony was taken, and was based upon the rule that in criminal actions the prosecution is compelled and…
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