May v. People

This was an indictment for the larceny of a horse, the property of one Joseph G. Blackford, upon which the defendant was convicted and sentenced to three years imprisonment in the penitentiary.

We are of opinion the evidence is insufficient to sustain the conviction.

There is no competent evidence bf any larceny having been committed aside from the confessions of the defendant, and even they are quite meagre to that end. The most to be derived from them is that the defendant took the horse and traded it off, and upon going to the person to whom he said he had traded the animal, it was found in…