Oxier v. United States
Court Of Appeals Of Indian Territory
Appeal from the United" States Court for the Southern District of the Indian Territory. C. B. Kilgore, Judge. Action against George Oxier and Ewalt Boone. From a conviction of larceny, they appeal. The opinion states the facts.
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Appeal from the United" States Court for the Southern District of the Indian Territory. C. B. Kilgore, Judge. Action against George Oxier and Ewalt Boone. From a conviction of larceny, they appeal. The opinion states the facts. An indictment, charging the theft of one steer from some person or persons to the Grand Jurors unknown, without any description of the steer, is fatally defective; for no person, handling 'cattle and innocent of a theft, could know or anticipate, from the charge in such an indictment, what particular steer the appellee would undertake to convict him of the theft of. An…
1ConcurrenceSpringer, C. J.
(concurring.) Appellants assign as error the fact that a witness for them, on cross-examination, was required to answer, over their objection, the questions: First, as to whether he had ever been arrested for anything; and, second, whether he had ever been arrested for horse stealing. To the first question, the witness answered that he had been arrested for cow stealing, and to the second he answered that he had. Three cases decided by the Supreme Court of Arkansas' — namely, Anderson vs State, 34 Ark. 257; Bates vs State, 60 Ark. 450, 30 S. W. 890; and Cline vs State, 51 Ark. 140, 10 S. W.…
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