State v. Johnson

Mount, J. —

Appellant was convicted of the crime of larceny from the person of one Henry Shuter. It is claimed hy appellant that the trial court erred in admitting evidence of the finding of a twenty-dollar gold piece in the room in which the larceny is alleged to have occurred. The prosecuting witness testified, in substance, that he was with the appellant on the evening *295of February 16, 1903, in room No. 8 of what is known as the Diamond House in Seattle; that the appellant, while sitting on his knee, put her hand into his pocket and took a twenty-dollar gold piece therefrom; that he…