State v. Owens

Philips, C.

The appellant, with one Marion Owens, was indicted for burglary and larceny, committed by entering a dhoe and harness shop and taking away certain specified property. There was a severance at the trial, and this defendant was convicted of the larceny and sentenced to two years in the penitentiary. Erom this judgment he has appealed to this court.

The leading features of the evidence are, that the defendants are cousiñs. Sidney Owens was reared in Nodaway county, and in the spring of 1878 he came to DeKalb county near a small village named Union Star, which was partly in the counties…