OPINION
Appellant, Joe Turman, hereinafter referred to as defendant, was charged, tried and convicted in the District Court, Adair County, Case No. CRF-72-S1, for the crime of Larceny of Domestic Animals and was sentenced to a term of three (3) years imprisonment; from said judgment and sentence a timely appeal has been perfected to this Court.
Briefly stated, the facts are that on May 30, 1972, Mr. Wayne Faddis had fourteen (14) Holstein calves which were kept in a 25 acre fenced pasture. At approximately 4:00 p. m. the animals were fed and all were present within the fenced pasture. The next morning Mr. Faddis noticed the gate to said pasture was open and two of the cattle were gone. After an investigation of the pasture, it was determined that a heifer and a steer were missing. A search was made of the neighborhood and inquiry was made of neighbors as to any information that they might be able to contribute. On June 1st, the Sheriff was notified of the alleged theft. The Sheriff made an investigation of the scene, noticing the tracks and also bark peeled back on some small saplings which indicated the calves had been tied to the small trees on the wooded embankment and then loaded into a pickup truck.
Mr. Jim Bieter, employed by the Cattlemen’s Association, was notified for assistance in the investigation. His investigation led the search to a pasture in southeast Oklahoma City to a pasture owned by Sam Pierce. Mr. Pierce had purchased a steer and heifer on June 2, 1972, from the defendant for Three Hundred ($300.00) Dollars. In front of Mr. Pierce, Mr. Bie-ter, and the Sheriff, Mr. Faddis identified a heifer calf at Mr. Pierce’s farm as belonging to him. After the calf was identified, the defendant was arrested and transported to Stilwell. During the drive back to Stilwell, Sheriff Harlin stated that the defendant had said that he had purchased the calf from a person named “Jim” near Mr. Faddis’ place and had paid $75.00 for each animal. (Tr. 127, 128). On July 20, 1972, Mr. Faddis and his family drove to Oklahoma City where the “stolen” calf was comingled with similar Holsteins to be identified by the members of the Faddis family. The “stolen” calf was correctly chosen by the whole family.
The defendant introduced five witnesses to provide an alibi for the evening of May 30th and the early morning of May 31st.
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As his first proposition, the defendant complains that remarks about the custody of the “stolen” animal were prejudicial. As to this proposition we need only observe that only those questions which were raised in the trial court, and on which adverse rulings were made and which were then incorporated in the Motion for New Trial and assigned as error in the Petition, will be considered upon appeal. Logan v. State, Okl.Cr.,
As the second assignment of error, the defendant alleges failure to prove taking and carrying away of stolen property which are essential elements of the crime of Larceny of Domestic Animals. At the outset we would observe that the mere possession of missing property is not sufficient to convict the defendant of larceny, but when such a fact is supplemented with substantial facts inconsistent with the idea that said defendant obtained the goods in an honest manner, it then becomes a question of fact for the jury to pass upon. Jones v. State, Okl.Cr.,
The defendant’s third proposition of error asserts prejudice as a result of an evidentiary harpoon. The Court would agree that when the State’s witness stated: “Gain in trying to locate Mr. Faddis’ animals and some other livestock that had been reported stolen,” (Tr. 188), that such statement was an evidentiary harpoon, but would observe that the defendant must not only object to improper statements of a witness, but must go further and move the court to exclude such remarks from the jury’s consideration, and instruct the jury not to consider said remark, unless such remark is of such character that error could not be cured by withdrawal of the remark. Box v. State, supra; Valenti v. State, Okl.Cr.,
Further, the defendant alleges error in the court’s “failure to properly instruct the jury on fundamental issues and refusal to give defendant’s proffered instruction.” It is a well settled rule in Oklahoma that the instructions given to the jury are left to the discretion of the judge, and that such discretion will not be
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interfered with as long as the instructions, considered as a whole, fairly and correctly state the applicable law. Barber v. State, Okl.Cr.,
The defendant’s final proposition asserts that error was committed by the trial court by summarily sentencing the defendant without providing him a copy of the presentencing report, and affording him an evidentiary hearing for the sole reason that a report had not arrived there yet. At the outset we would observe that the statute is not written in language that would make such investigation mandatory, e. g. “Where the court desires more information, it may . . . request the Department of Pardon and Parole to make a study of the defendant.” 22 O. S.1971, § 982. As pointed out in Kuerschner v. State, Okl.Cr.,
Having answered all of defendant’s propositions of error, and finding no error which would justify modification or reversal, the judgment and sentence is accordingly affirmed.