State v. Cantlin
Supreme Court of Missouri
Appeal from St. Louis Criminal Court. — Hon. Henry L. Edmunds, Judge. Robbery in the first degree is the charge in the indictment, on which charge the defendants were convicted and their punishment assessed at five years imprisonment in the penitentiary.
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Appeal from St. Louis Criminal Court. — Hon. Henry L. Edmunds, Judge. Robbery in the first degree is the charge in the indictment, on which charge the defendants were convicted and their punishment assessed at five years imprisonment in the penitentiary. The charging portion of the indictment is this: “That Louis Hendricks, John Cantlin, Richard Cantlin, William Shadwick and Thomas Mooney, late of ' the city of St. Louis aforesaid, and state aforesaid, on the ninth day of October, in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and ninety-two, at the city of St. Louis aforesaid, with force…
1Opinion of the CourtShebwood, J.
I. The defendants are not represented in this court; but in the motion for a new trial *110the grounds on which defendants rely have already been set forth in the preceding statement.
One .of the grounds of the motion is, that there is no evidence to support the verdict of the jury. The record itself contradicts this assertion; there is evidence to support the verdict. As. to whether the jury should have believed the defendants rather than Dougherty, was a question solely for the jury. If the testimony of Dougherty had transcended all bounds of human probability, or if he had stated facts…
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