State v. Jones
Nevada Supreme Court
Appeal from the District Court of the Seventh Judicial District, Lincoln County. The defendant were indicted for the stealing on June 17th, 1871, of two horses from J. R. Cunningham, and one horsq from James Barney, at Pioche City, in Lincoln County. It appears that they were arrested with the horses in their possession some fifteen miles from Pioche, and that they were at the time on their way towards Idaho, having started before daylight.
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Appeal from the District Court of the Seventh Judicial District, Lincoln County. The defendant were indicted for the stealing on June 17th, 1871, of two horses from J. R. Cunningham, and one horsq from James Barney, at Pioche City, in Lincoln County. It appears that they were arrested with the horses in their possession some fifteen miles from Pioche, and that they were at the time on their way towards Idaho, having started before daylight. They claimed to have purchased the animals from Charles Jackson, and'a paper, purporting to be a bill of sale, signed by a person of that name, to Jones,…
1Opinion of the Court
By the Court,
Lewis, C. J.:
The defendants were indicted, tried and convicted of grand larceny for the stealing of three horses. A motion for new trial was regularly made, denied and an appeal taken, upon which several errors are assigned; the first, being an illegal separation of a juror named Wilkin from his fellows, after the submission of the case. This assignment is founded upon an affidavit setting out substantially that the juror, in company with the officer placed in charge, left the jury room and visited his residence some five hundred yards from *413the jury room; that whilst passing…
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