Weatherford v. State

BÉSSEY, P. J.

Arthur Weatherford, plaintiff in error, here designated the defendant, was convicted of the larceny of a calf. The jury fixed his punishment at confinement in the penitentiary for two years.

Without reciting the details, the evidence is clear and convincing that the theft was committed by the defendant as charged. His only claim of justification is that his accomplice in crime turned informer and assisted in trapping him, which of course is no defense at all.

Defendant claims that the district court was without jurisdiction because the examining magistrate had not properly…