State v. Nelson

Citations

• 36 Wash. 126
• 68 L.R.A. 283
• 78 P. 790
• 1904 Wash. LEXIS 528

Syllabus

<p>Criminal Law — Burglary—Attempts—Lien of Livery Stable Keeper — General Owner Depriving Keeper of Special Property— Information — Sufficiency. An information charging the owner of horses with unlawfully breaking and entering the livery and boarding stable wherein they were kept by another, who had a valid lien upon and spwial jmop_eu-tyun the horses for his charges in feeding and caring for them, with intent to_fraudulen'tly and feloniously take the horses fromjind to deprive such keeper of his lien and the amount due him, which is specified, is not demurrable for want of sufficiefit’facts to state an offense, since the lien of the keeper is property in himself secured by his possession, of which the general owner was attempting to feloniously deprive him.</p>