State v. Curtis
Idaho Supreme Court
APPEAL from the District Court of the Fourth Judicial District, for Twin Falls County. Hon. Wm. A. Babcock, Judge. Defendants were convicted of grand larceny. “The court should not place a particular witness in undue prominence by charging the jury to find according to their belief or disbelief in his evidence.”
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APPEAL from the District Court of the Fourth Judicial District, for Twin Falls County. Hon. Wm. A. Babcock, Judge. Defendants were convicted of grand larceny. “The court should not place a particular witness in undue prominence by charging the jury to find according to their belief or disbelief in his evidence.” (1 Blashfield’s Instructions to Juries, p. 347; Thompson v. State, 106 Ala. 67, 17 So. 512; Fraser v. Haggerty, 86 Mich. 521, 49 N. W. 616; Chase v. Buhl Iron Works, 55 Mich. 139, 20 N1. W. 827; People v. Simpson, 48 Mich. 474, 12 N. W. 662; Dolan v. President etc. Delaware &' H.…
1Opinion of the CourtMorgan, J.
Appellants were convicted of the larceny of a certain cow, the property of H. P. Larson. From the judgment of conviction and from an order denying their motion for a new trial they have appealed to this court.
The assignments of error question the sufficiency of the evidence to sustain the verdict, and it is particularly urged that appellant, Atkinson, is not shown to have unlawfully participated in taking the animal, nor to have been in any manner connected with the commission of the crime.
*539It appears from the record that for about four years prior to the arrest of appellants, they had been…
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