People v. Salvador

Under and by virtue of an act approved March 20, 1872 (Stats. 1871-72, p. 435), entitled “An act supplementary to ‘an act concerning crimes and punishments/ passed April 16, 1850,” the defendant was charged by information with the crime of grand larceny committed on the fourteenth day of March, 1886, in the county of Nevada, by feloniously stealing, taking, and carrying away, from a certain described mining claim and the ground sluices thereof, a certain quantity of gold-dust.

For the defendant, it is contended that the law in question was not in force at the time of the commission of the…