State v. Morris
Supreme Court of Minnesota
Defendant ivas indicted by the grand jury of Olmsted county charged with the.crime of grand larceny in the second degree, tried in the district court for that county before Callaghan, J., and a jury, and found guilty of petit larceny. When the state rested, defendant’s motion for a direeted verdict and his motion to dismiss the action were denied. Defendant’s motion for judgment notwithstanding the verdict or for a new trial, was denied.
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Defendant ivas indicted by the grand jury of Olmsted county charged with the.crime of grand larceny in the second degree, tried in the district court for that county before Callaghan, J., and a jury, and found guilty of petit larceny. When the state rested, defendant’s motion for a direeted verdict and his motion to dismiss the action were denied. Defendant’s motion for judgment notwithstanding the verdict or for a new trial, was denied. From the judgment entered pursuant to the verdict and sentence, defendant appealed.
1Opinion of the Court
Lees, C.
Defendant was indicted on a charge of grand larceny in -the second degree. The jury found him guilty of petit larceny, and he has appealed from the judgment rendered uj>on his conviction.
The proof of guilt consisted largely of the testimony of one Delitzo, a confessed accomplice. In substance his testimony was that in July, 1919, while he was employed by the Kahler-Roberts Company at the Colonial Hotel in the city of Rochester, he took a sack of flour, a sack of coffee and one of sugar, of the value of $22.06, all belonging to the company, and set the sacks on a porch or in an outside…
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- State v. NelsonSupreme Court of Minnesota · 1903
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