Starke v. State
Wyoming Supreme Court
Error to the District Court, Converse County; Hon. Rodericic N. Matson, Judge. J. A. Starke was prosecuted for grand larceny upon an information charging the stealing of 400 sheep, the property of the Mountain Home Company, a corporation. He was convicted and thereupon prosecuted error. The material facts are stated in the opinion.
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Error to the District Court, Converse County; Hon. Rodericic N. Matson, Judge. J. A. Starke was prosecuted for grand larceny upon an information charging the stealing of 400 sheep, the property of the Mountain Home Company, a corporation. He was convicted and thereupon prosecuted error. The material facts are stated in the opinion. The three jurors who were members of an association or associations of stock or wool growers were incompetent and the defendant’s challenge of such jurors for cause should have been sustained, since it appeared that one purpose of each of such associations was the…
1Opinion of the Court
Buard, Justicu.
The plaintiff in error was tried in the district court of Converse County upon an information containing two counts, the first count charging grand larceny, and the second count charging the receiving of stolen property, knowing the same to have been stolen. He was convicted on the first count of the information and sentenced to imprisonment in the penitentiary, and he brings error.
The grounds upon which he relies for a reversal of the judgment, as stated in the brief of his counsel, are:
1. “Error on the part of the trial judge in overruling challenges for cause to certain…
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