Childs v. State
Nebraska Supreme Court
Error to the district court for Gage county. Tried below before Appelget, J. cited, as to the instructions: Cowan v. State, 22 Neb., 519; Commonwealth v. Webster, 5 Cush. [Mass.], 295. cited, on the same point: Lincoln v. Smith, 28 Neb., 762; Murphy v. State, 15 Id., 383; Gray v. Farmer, 19 Id., 69; St. Louis v. State, 8 Id., 405; Parish v. State, 14 Id., 60; Campbell v. Holland, 22 Id., 587; R. R. Co. v. Finlayson, 16 Id., 578.
1Opinion of the Court
Maxwell, Ch. J.
The plaintiff in error was tried in the district court of Gage county upon an information charging him and one George Weisen with unlawfully and feloniously stealing and carrying away eighteen sacks of the value of $3.60, and forty-one bushels of flaxseed of the value of $40.80. He was found guilty by the jury and sentenced to imprisment in the penitentiary for one year and six months. The court instructed the jury as follows:
“On the question of reasonable doubt the court instructs *237the jury that the term ‘reasonable doubt,’ as used in these instructions, means a doubt which has…
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