Williams v. State

Plaintiffs in error were by the district court for Douglas county convicted of the crime of robbery and sentenced to a term in the penitentiary, from which judgment they prosecute error to this court.

The first assignment of the petition in error relates to the sufficiency of the evidence to sustain the judgment. Among the facts which the state’s evidence tends to establish are the following: On the 20th day of September, 1896, Thomas Thompson, a young man whose home was in Furnas county, in this state, arrived at the Union depot in the city of Omaha, where, while waiting for a delayed train,…