State v. Lindsey

The appellants were found guilty by the verdicts of a jury of the crime of grand larceny, charged to have been committed on the fifteenth day of April, 1935, a date prior to the effective date of chapter 114, Laws of 1935, p. 308, Rem. Rev. Stat. (Sup.), § 10249-1 [P. C. § 4503-31] et seq. After the return of the verdicts, Judge Chas. H. Leavy, who presided at the trial, sentenced the appellant E. R. Lindsey to the state penitentiary for a term of not more than fifteen years, and the appellant Elbert B. Lindsey to confinement in the state reformatory for a like term. On appeal to this court,…