State v. Mason

On the 2d day of February, 1899, in the District Court of Silver Bow county, the defendant was found guilty of the crime of robbery, and thereafter was sentenced to the state prison for a term of twenty years. No motion for a new trial was made, nor does the record contain any bill of exceptions; and what evidence the record did contain, upon motion, has been stricken out. The appeal is from the judgment, on the judgment roll. It appears from the judgment roll that witnesses were called, and testimony was given in behalf of defendant.

The appellant complains of the following instruction, which…