State v. Burwell

The opinion of the court was delivered by

JohnstoN, J.:

O. J. Burwell was convicted of unlawfully and feloniously receiving an iron safe, of the value of $50, and national bank notes, treasury notes, and gold and silver certificates, of the amount of $2,600, which had been stolen from the Pacific Express Company, in the town of Lenora. The punishment adjudged was imprisonment at hard labor in the state penitentiary for a term of five years. A remark made by the court during the progress of the trial is the principal ground assigned for reversal. William Burwell, a son of the appellant, who was…