State v. Miller

The defendant, Harry Miller, has appealed from a judgment of conviction and from an order denying him a new trial.

The information on which Miller was convicted charged the larceny of a black mare from one Henry J. Behmerwohld of Garfield county. This mare was one of a carload of horses sold and delivered by the defendant at the stockyards in Winnett, to E. W. Yickroy for shipment to Wisconsin. Before permitting the horses to be loaded, the stock inspector de manded the production of bills of sale for the horses. Miller stated, in effect, that as a horse buyer he had purchased the horses from…