State v. Slusher

In the Circuit Court of Atchison County the appellant, W. E. Slusher, and one George Reynolds, were charged by information- with grand larceny in that they stole a row boat belonging to one B. H. Spitler, May 27, 1922. On the third day of May, 1923, the appellant was tried on said charge, found guilty, and his punishment fixed at imprisonment for two years in the penitentiary, and from the judgment then rendered he appealed.

B. H. Spitler testified that he lived on an island in the Missouri River; he owned a row boat which he kept at the mouth of the Nishnabotna River on the Missouri side. The…