Keely v. State

Prosecution in the Common Pleas for larceny. Conviction, and sentence for two years to the state prison.

The evidence was substantially as follows:

On the night of the 19th of October, 1859, Keely the appellant, and Kerr and Radcliff, were at the house of one Josephine Hudson, in Indianapolis, a house of ill-fame of the worst character. Keely and Radcliff had drank to excess. Radcliff, before the party proposed to leave the house, became dead drunk, so that he could not be aroused, and Keely and Kerr departed, leaving him lying senseless on the floor. About an hour afterwards Keely returned and…