Court Opinion

ID: 9855985
Source: CourtListenerOpinion
Date Created: 2023-09-24 06:35:47.981749+00
Date Added: 2024-06-11T09:37:23.957287
License: Public Domain

SHEPARD, Justice
(concurring in part and dissenting in part).
I concur in the majority opinion except that portion relating to the answers of a witness elicited by defense counsel upon cross-examination. In my judgment, the inference to be drawn as argued by appellant is at best remote. Defense counsel asked the witness whether other calves had been found on defendant’s property. He answered that he had so found other calves. He also indicated in subsequent questioning that he found two particular calves on defendant-appellant’s property and that later those two same calves were found wandering the road. I fail to see how such testimony was other than solicited by the defense, or how such testimony inferred that appellant was involved in other larcenous acts.