Askew v. People
Supreme Court of Colorado
Error to the District Court of Arapahoe County. The plaintiff in error, John Askew, was indicted jointly with Fred Busby, Hedley Eacock and Fred Goldsmith, for the larceny of cattle, of the personal goods, chattels and property of The D. T. Cattle Company, an incorporated company. The defendant secured a separate trial, which resulted in a verdict of guilty, upon which he was sentenced to the penitentiary for a term of two years.
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Error to the District Court of Arapahoe County. The plaintiff in error, John Askew, was indicted jointly with Fred Busby, Hedley Eacock and Fred Goldsmith, for the larceny of cattle, of the personal goods, chattels and property of The D. T. Cattle Company, an incorporated company. The defendant secured a separate trial, which resulted in a verdict of guilty, upon which he was sentenced to the penitentiary for a term of two years. To reverse this judgment the cause is brought here by error.
1Opinion of the Court
Chiee Justice Hayt
delivered the opinion of the court.
The evidence for the prosecution discloses that the defendant, Askew, at the time lived about a mile from the town of Watkins, which town is situate about twenty-one miles from the city of Denver, in Arapahoe county. It appears from the evidence that the defendants, Busby and Eacock, drove these cattle into Askew’s pasture, by his directions. Carson White, the deputy sheriff who made the arrests, says that after the cattle were driven into the pasture, he examined the brands and earmarks; that there were three steers, one white, which was…
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