Legal Opinion

Younger v. State

Wyoming Supreme Court

Decided August 20, 1903PublishedCited by 5 opinions

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Error to the District Court, Big Horn County, Hon. Joseph E. Stotts, Judge. The plaintiff in error was convicted of the crime of grand larceny and prosecuted proceedings in error. The facts are stated in the opinion. The evidence in rebuttal by the prosecution to -impeach the testimony of a witness who had testified to having met defendant on the day of the alleged larceny at a place distant from the place where the larceny was committed was incompetent and immaterial unless it tended to establish that the witness could not have been at the place where he stated the meeting had occurred. It…

1Opinion of the Court

Potter, Justice.-

The plaintiff in error, Ed Younger, was informed against in the District Court for the County of Big Horn for the crime of grand larceny; the information charging him with having stolen four horses of the value of $300, the property of one Emereth A. Boots. The crime is charged to have been committed July 29th, 1901. He was convicted 'and was sentenced to imprisonment' in the penitentiary for the period of three years and six months, the jury having by their verdict found the value of the property stolen to be $200. '

It appears from the evidence that the defendant was at the…

2Cases cited8 opinions

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