Shiew v State

Shiew v State
1946 OK CR 47
169 P.2d 213
82 Okl.Cr. 286
Decided: 05/08/1946
Oklahoma Court of Criminal Appeals

(Syllabus.)

1. Appeal and Error-Continuance-Discretion of Court as to Sustaining or Overruling of Motion for Continuance. The sustaining or overruling of a motion for continuance is generally within the discretion of the court, and unless this discretion has been abused, or defendant has been deprived of a legal right, an appellate court will not give relief and reverse the case.

2. Larceny-Record Sustains Judgment and Sentence of Four Years in Penitentiary. Record examined and found to sustain the judgment and sentence of four years in the State Penitentiary where defendant was charged with the larceny of cattle.

Appeal from District Court, Atoka County; Roy Paul, Judge.

Troy Shiew was convicted of larceny of livestock and sentenced to a term of four years in State Penitentiary, and he appeals. Affirmed.

I. L. Cook, of Atoka, for plaintiff in error.

Mac Q. Williamson, Atty. Gen., and W. H. Parker, County Atty., Atoka County, of Atoka, for defendant in error.

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BAREFOOT, J. Defendant, Troy Shiew, was charged in the district court of Atoka county with the crime of larceny of livestock, to wit: one cow and one heifer; was tried, convicted and sentenced to serve a term of four years in the State Penitentiary, and has appealed.

At the time this case was set for oral argument counsel for defendant was present, and his only contention was that the judgment and sentence should be modified. No brief has been filed by the defendant, or by the state.

We have carefully examined the record. Defendant was charged in the information with the larceny of one black bald-faced cow about three years old, with horns, not marked or branded, and one red white-faced heifer with crop off each ear, and not branded, the property of Newton Baker, of Atoka county.

The heifer above described was not found or recovered. The cow was found in Muskogee county. They had been purchased by a Mr. Lester, from the stockyards in Muskogee.

One witness, Leonard Smith, testified that he saw the defendant near his home in Pittsburg county about the 20th of April, 1943, (the date the catttle were alleged to have been stolen) and that he was driving a truck in which he had three head of cattle. The description of these cattle was the same as those of Mr. Baker and of another party who had lost a cow at the same time, and identified at the time the cow of Mr. Baker was found in Muskogee county. Mr. John Brown testifed that he was in the commission business in Muskogee. That during the spring of 1943 he sold the three head of cattle above described for the defendant in the stockyards at Muskogee. He identified the defendant as the party who had the cattle,

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and that he gave him the assumed name of "Roy Payne", and it was under this name that the cattle were sold. The duplicate copy of the sales slip was introduced in evidence, and it showed that two head of the cattle were sold to Mr. Lester, and the other to a Mr. Bailey. Also introduced in evidence was the check to Roy Payne for $174.26, in payment for the cattle.

No evidence was presented by the defendant, and he did not testify in his own behalf.