State v. Griffin

1. Larceny: property found on defendant’s premises: identity: presumption: instruction. I. The evidence against the defendant was purely circumstantial. He kept a saloon in the city of Dubuque, and the evidence on which he was convicted tends strongly to prove that the alleged larceny was committed in his saloon. The money is alleged to have been stolen from one Frank C. Harmon, on the evening of September 22, 1884. On that evening Harmon went to the saloon, and, after taking a number of drinks of intoxicating liquors, engaged in a game of dice with the defendant. He had been drinking before…