State v. Schoonover

— D. N. Schoonover and Owen Baker were convicted of the crime of grand larceny, under an information charging them with taking from one Peter Marinoff, and converting to their own use, one hundred and sixty-five bottles of intoxicating liquor and one hundred dollars in money, the property of Marinoff. From the judgment of conviction, Schoonover appeals.

The information charged, and the evidence tended to show, that the property was taken by trick and device. It appears that, early in the evening on which the offense was committed, Baker met one Cunningham at a railway depot in the city of…