State v. Dickenson

Defendant was charged in a two-count indictment with (1) injuring personal property (former OBS 164.900), and (2) larceny by bailee (former OBS *359165.010). He was convicted by jury of larceny by bailee and placed on probation for one year. He appeals, asserting three assignments of error.

There was evidence that defendant was the conditional-sales-contract purchaser of a certain S-7B Hough Paylogger, a piece of heavy logging equipment also called a skidder, or loader. Its' use was described as follows: After a tree is felled and bucked this tractor-like apparatus goes to the log, picks up…