Reed v. State

In this case we reach the conclusion, though with some doubt and hesitation, that there was before the jury sufficient evidence to warrant the verdict rendered. The defendants, William Need and Reed Yates, were tried in Douglas county upon an information charging robbery, and ivere found guilty of larceny from the person. The testimony of the principal witnesses on both sides is far from satisfactory; much of it is extremely improbable and some of it altogether incredible. The conceded facts are these: On Friday afternoon, December 27, 1901, the complaining witness, Henry Bigel, an…