Case Name: The State v. Myer
Court: Iowa Supreme Court
Jurisdiction: Iowa
Decision Date: 1886-06-16
Citations: 69 Iowa 148
Docket Number: 
Parties: The State v. Myer.
Judges: 
Reporter: Iowa Reports
Volume: 69
Pages: 148–149

Head Matter:
The State v. Myer.
1 Instructions: must be warranted by evidence. It is error to submit to the jury .a question of which there is no evidence.
Appeal from. Grawford District Oowrt
Wednesday, June 16.
Indictment charging the defendant with the larceny of a horse. Trial by jury. Yerdict and judgment. The defendant appeals.
Button dh Cummings, for appellant.
A. J. Baher, Attorney-general, for the State.

Opinion:
Servers, J.
The court charged the jury that the state must establish that the defendant took the horse without the owner's knowledge or consent, or that he " aided, abbetted or assisted another person or persons in so taking away the the horse." After the jury had been considering as to their verdict for a considerable time, the court, in response to an inquiry propounded by the jury, stated at some length what was meant by aiding and abetting the commission of a larceny. On a separate reading of the abstract we have separately reached the conclusion that there is ño evidence tending to show that the defendant in any respect aided and abetted any person in the commission of the crime, and therefore the court erred in submitting such question to the jury.
Eeversed.