State v. Wells

After accused had been regularly tried before a jury on the charge of cow stealing, and convicted, he moved for a new trial, on the grounds that he had not been represented by counsel at the trial, none having been assigned him by the court, and that the verdict was contrary to the law and the evidence, because the evidence which was adduced against him had not been sufficient to make out a case of stealing.

The facts as stated in the bill of exception taken to the refusal of the new trial are that the cow in question was a calf belonging to the community of acqu§ts and gains that had existed…