Yota v. State

Plaintiff in error, Levi Yota, was tried on an indictment by 'which he was charged with the theft of $123, the personal property of Sophia Carr; and on the 14th day of October, 1911, in accordance with the verdict of the jury, he was, by the court, sentenced to be imprisoned in the penitentiary for a term of eighteen months. To reverse the judgment an appeal was perfected by filing in this court on April 11, 1912, a petition in error with case-made.

Since the appeal was taken, and before the final submission of the cause, to wit, April 15, 1913, he departed this life, as shown by the…