State v. Chapman
Nevada Supreme Court
Appeal from the District Court of the Second Judicial District, Washoe County. The defendant, after his conviction, was sentenced to imprisonment in the State Prison for the term of eighteen years.
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Appeal from the District Court of the Second Judicial District, Washoe County. The defendant, after his conviction, was sentenced to imprisonment in the State Prison for the term of eighteen years. The charging part of the indictment, which is commended in the following opinion, was as follows: “ That A. J. Davis, E. B. Parsons^. C. Roberts, James Gilchrist, Tilton Cockerell, R. A. Jones, J. E. Chapman and John Squires, on the fifth day of November, A.d. 1870, and before the finding of this indictment, at Washoe County, in the State of Nevada, in and upon one Frank C. Min-shull, express…
1Opinion of the Court
By the Court,
Whitman, J.:
The appellant was jointly indicted with others, and convicted of robbery. He alone appeals, upon various grounds, which will appear in the course of this opinion.
On the morning of the 5th November, 1870, the cars of the Central Pacific Railroad Company of California were stopped in Washoe County, in the State of Nevada, by the defendants named in the indictment other than the • appellant, and the treasure-box of Wells, Fargo & Co. broken open and robbed of $40,000. Appellant was not personally present; but was in San Francisco, California, where, it is contended by…
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