State v. Hull

*185RICHARDSON, J.

The defendants were charged with first degree theft of a beef animal in a single indictment and were jointly tried and convicted by the court sitting without a jury. They assert two errors in the trial. First, that their conviction was based on the uncorroborated testimony of accomplices, and second, there was insufficient evidence the stolen beef animal was the property of the person named as the owner in the indictment.

The defendants, who are brothers, in the company of Robert Foote and his wife, Laurlie Foote, were hunting for deer in eastern Oregon. All four of these persons…