Long v. State
Wyoming Supreme Court
ERROR to the District Court, Converse County, Hon. Roderick N. Matson, Judge. J. W. Long was convicted of grand larceny, and prosecuted error. The material facts are stated in the opinion. The verdict is uncertain as to value. It is insufficient "because general and not responding to each count in the information.
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ERROR to the District Court, Converse County, Hon. Roderick N. Matson, Judge. J. W. Long was convicted of grand larceny, and prosecuted error. The material facts are stated in the opinion. The verdict is uncertain as to value. It is insufficient "because general and not responding to each count in the information. (Casey v. State, 20 Neb., 149; Wilson v. State, 20 O., 26; Hurley v. State, 6 O., 404; State v. Sutton, 4 Gill, 494; Marshall v. Comm., 5 Gratt., 663; State v. Redman, 17 la., 329; Setvester v. U. S., 170 U. S., 264; G. & W. on New Trials, 140.) The instructions failed to discuss…
1Opinion of the Court
Beard, Justice.
The plaintiff in error was tried, convicted and sentenced to a term in the penitentiary by the District Court of Converse County, and he brings the case here on error. The information upon'which the plaintiff in error was convicted was in two counts. The* first count charged the larceny of one head of neat cattle of the value of forty dollars of the property of Henry Trollope. The second count charged the felonious receiving of said property knowing the same to have been stolen. The verdict of the jury is in the following language, viz.:
“We, the jury in the above entitled case,…
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