State v. Lee

The defendant was accused by an indictment for larceny in defacing the artificial ear-marks upon a steer, the property of another, with the intent then and thereby to convert said steer to his own use, committed as follows: “The said John Lee, on the nineteenth day of July, A. D. 1887, in the county of Washington, and state of Oregon, did feloniously, willfully, and knowingly deface certain ear-marks upon a certain steer (said steer being then and there the personal property of H. W. Scott), by then and there unlawfully and feloniously cutting off the ends of both ears of said animal, with…