55 Kan. 693 | Kan. | 1895
The opinion of the court was delivered by
The appellant, Oscar Wade, was charged by information in the district court of Wilson county with the larceny of cattle in Wilson county. The proof showed that the original taking was in Elk. The only question raised on the record is whether, in order to convict the defendant on the facts as ■ developed at the trial, it was necessary to charge in the information that the original taking was in Elk county. In McFarland v. The State, 4 Kas. 68, a conviction under an information charging the defendant with the larceny of goods in Leavenworth county, when the proof showed the original taking to have been in Missouri, was sustained under the provisions of the statute then in force, and now as ¶ 2559 of the General Statutes of 1889. In the case of The State v. Price, ante, p. 606, it was held that § 26 of the code of criminal procedure, which provides that “when property
As the asportation of the stolen property within the county of Wilson was sufficient to constitute the offense of larceny, it was not necessary to allege the place of tire original taking.
The judgment is affirmed.