Johnson v. People

At the November term, 1883, of the Johnson county circuit court, John T. Johnson was convicted, and sentenced to. the penitentiary for two years, for the larceny of five twenty-dollar gold pieces, the property of one Charles Grattan. The present writ of error is brought to reverse that conviction.

The evidence tends to show the money charged to have been stolen was voluntarily delivered by the owner to the accused for safe keeping, the former being on a spree, and considerably intoxicated at the time. ' The indictment under which the conviction was had, was in the ordinary form, charging the…