Report of Cases Decided in the Supreme Court of the State of Utah Volume 49 (Paperback)


This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1918 edition. Excerpt: ...the charge was grand larceny. The significance of this conflict in the evidence on an apparently immaterial matter will appear farther along in this opinion. Defendant, as he passed Water Canyon in 'custody of the State v. Williams. 49 Utah 336. officer, directed the officers' attention to two horses that were grazing on the public domain some distance from the road that resembled, and probably were, the stolen horses in question. The deputy sherif f testified that Water Canyon is a place "where they generally have drives"; that he has "always understood they have a trap there, and it is a place where they hold horses--where different horse gatherers trap and hold their horses." On being questioned by the officer the following day regarding the horses he was accused of stealing, the defendant stated that they were turned over to him at Hinckley, Utah, by a man by the name of Bidwell, who instructed him to take them to Water Canyon, White Pine County, Nev., and there turn them loose on the public domain. His statement to the officer in that regard was substantially the same as that made later by him at the trial. A few days after the arrest the horses were found at Water Canyon in the vicinity of where the defendant claimed he had left them. C. W. Meechem was called by the state and testified that when the defendant stopped at his ranch with the horses he had a conversation with him in which defendant, after speaking of the James horses, "turned to these three and said, 'Those three belong to me;' that is, these two horses the Terry horses and a little white pony that he had." On cross-examination the witness qualified this remark by saying, "As near as I can recall it that is the...

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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1918 edition. Excerpt: ...the charge was grand larceny. The significance of this conflict in the evidence on an apparently immaterial matter will appear farther along in this opinion. Defendant, as he passed Water Canyon in 'custody of the State v. Williams. 49 Utah 336. officer, directed the officers' attention to two horses that were grazing on the public domain some distance from the road that resembled, and probably were, the stolen horses in question. The deputy sherif f testified that Water Canyon is a place "where they generally have drives"; that he has "always understood they have a trap there, and it is a place where they hold horses--where different horse gatherers trap and hold their horses." On being questioned by the officer the following day regarding the horses he was accused of stealing, the defendant stated that they were turned over to him at Hinckley, Utah, by a man by the name of Bidwell, who instructed him to take them to Water Canyon, White Pine County, Nev., and there turn them loose on the public domain. His statement to the officer in that regard was substantially the same as that made later by him at the trial. A few days after the arrest the horses were found at Water Canyon in the vicinity of where the defendant claimed he had left them. C. W. Meechem was called by the state and testified that when the defendant stopped at his ranch with the horses he had a conversation with him in which defendant, after speaking of the James horses, "turned to these three and said, 'Those three belong to me;' that is, these two horses the Terry horses and a little white pony that he had." On cross-examination the witness qualified this remark by saying, "As near as I can recall it that is the...

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2013

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2013

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246 x 189 x 13mm (L x W x T)

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Paperback - Trade

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246

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978-1-234-09764-6

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9781234097646

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1-234-09764-8



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