State v. Kelly
Supreme Court of Iowa
Appeal from Cherokee District Court. Defendant was indicted and convicted of larceny of a steer, the property of Peter Mathews, and sentenced to the penitentiary for the term of eighteen months. He now appeals to this court.
1Opinion of the CourtBeck, J.
I. The evidence establishes, without contradiction, that defendant drove a steer in the night-time to the town of Cherokee, and in the morning sold it to one McConnell, a butcher. This was on the 18th day of September. On the 3d of October, Mathews discovered that a steer belonging to him, kept in a herd of one Coleman, about fifteen miles from Cherokee, was missing. For the stealing of this animal defendant was indicted. There was evidence tending to show that the steer sold by defendant was the one owned by Mathews, which had disappeared from the herd.
II. The court gave the following…
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