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  "name": "Collins v. State",
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        "text": "McHaney, J.\nAppellant was convicted on a charge of grand larceny, for the theft of one brown Jersey heifer, of the value of $13.76, the property of Everett Matthews, and sentenced to one year in the penitentiary. He assigns and relies upon four errors of the trial court to reverse the judgment against him.\nIt is first said that the evidence is not sufficient to support the verdict. The facts are, as shown by the State\u2019s witnesses, that said Matthews was the owner of one brown Jersey heifer which disappeared from the pasture ne\u00e1r appellant\u2019s home in Ola. Shortly after its disappearance, Matthews, senior, discovered its hide hanging in front of George King\u2019s hide house in Ola, and King advised Mr. Matthews that he had purchased the heifer from appellant, and they butchered it in the pasture near the Carl Collins\u2019 home. He so testified in-court. Appellant admitted that he sold a heifer to King, but denied that it was the property of Everett Matthews, and insisted that it belonged to him, his father and brother; that his father had bought a cow and her calf in 1929, and that the heifer sold to King was that calf. D. W. Matthews, Everett Matthews and his wife positively identified the hide. This made a question for the-jury as to the identity of the heifer. But appellant says this evidence is insufficient to show that he had stolen it, and that this is all the evidence on the subject; that the fact that he, with King, butchered this heifer which he had sold to King, even though it were Matthews\u2019 property, is not sufficient to convict of larceny. We cannot agree with appellant. Section 2490, Crawford & Moses\u2019 Digest provides: \u201cEvery person who shall mark, steal or kill, or wound, with intent to steal, any kind of c attle, pigs, hogs, sheep or goats, shall be guilty of a felony, and upon conviction thereof, be imprisoned at hard labor in the penitentiary for any time not less than one year nor more than five years.\u201d Appellant and another killed the heifer, the property of Matthews, sold it io King, and the \u201cintent to steal\u201d could be inferred by the jury from such facts.\nIt is next said the court erred in refusing to give instruction No. 1, requested by him on circumstantial evidence. The evidence here was not-circumstantial, but was positive and direct. No error was therefore committed, and we have held \u201cthat it is not improper to refuse to give such an instruction, even in cases where the conviction was asked wholly.upon circumstantial evidence, where the jury ivas properly instructed as to the burden of proof resting on the State to establish the guilt of the accused beyond a reasonable doubt and where reasonable doubt was properly defined.\u201d Payne v. State, 177 Ark. 413, 6 S. W. (2d) 832.\nTbe court fully and correctly instructed on the credibility of the witnesses, the weight -of the evidence, presumption of innocence, and reasonable doubt.\nIt is next said the court erred in refusing requested instruction No. 2 as follows: \u201cEven though the evidence raises your suspicion of the theft of the yearling by the defendant, Bob Collins, yet, unless the theft is proved beyond a reasonable doubt, you will find the defendant not guilty.\u201d\nThis instruction was fully covered by others given - by the court and would have been a repetition. The court is not required to multiply instructions on the same subject to the same effect.\nIt is finally said the court erred in refusing requested instruction No. 3 as follows: \u201cIf you find that the defendant, Bob Collins, took the yearling in question, in good faith, under the honest belief that he was the owner thereof, and even though, upon learning after-wards that said yearling was not his own property, converted it to his own use, you will find the defendant not guilty.\u201d\nConceding the correctness of such instruction, [see Wilson v. State, 96 Ark. 148, 131 S. W. 336, 41 L. R. A. (N. S.) 549, Am. Cas. 1912B, 339] it was abstract as there was no theory advanced by appellant on which to base it. He and his relatives testified it was their heifer \u2014 not that he had taken Matthews\u2019 property under the honest but mistaken belief that it was his.\nAffirmed.",
        "type": "majority",
        "author": "McHaney, J."
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    "attorneys": [
      "Gminess \u25a0& George and B. P. Madole, for appellant.",
      "Hal L. Norwood, Attorney General, and Robert F. Smith, Assistant, for appellee."
    ],
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    "head_matter": "Collins v. State.\nOpinion delivered June 22, 1931.\nGminess \u25a0& George and B. P. Madole, for appellant.\nHal L. Norwood, Attorney General, and Robert F. Smith, Assistant, for appellee."
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