State v. Moss
Oregon Supreme Court
From Lake: L. F. Conn, Judge. Department 1. The defendant was indicted for the larceny of two steers, seven cows and one calf, all branded and said to be owned by different parties, two of whom had a recorded brand.
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From Lake: L. F. Conn, Judge. Department 1. The defendant was indicted for the larceny of two steers, seven cows and one calf, all branded and said to be owned by different parties, two of whom had a recorded brand. We condense the' statement following from the brief for the state, supplemented by some of its testimony: The defendant himself was the owner of several hundred head of cattle which with the animals mentioned in the indictment and still others owned by other and different parties were ranging on a tract in the forest reserve, the pasturage of which had been allotted to the…
1Opinion of the CourtBurnett, J.
1, 2. There are numerous assignments of error, but we shall consider only one of them, that challenging the sufficiency of the evidence to sustain a conviction. The defendant was indicted under Section' 1950, L. O. L., reading thus:
“If any person shall commit the crime of larceny by stealing any horse, gelding, mare, mule, ass, jenny or foal, bull, steer, cow, heifer, hog, dog or sheep, such person, upon conviction thereof, shall be punished by imprisonment in the penitentiary not less than one nor more than ten years, or by imprisonment in the county jail not less than three months nor more…
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