State v. Stickney

The opinion of the court was delivered by

Johnston, J.:

*3103 denial,unotoe’ *308Morgan A. Stickney was convicted of burglary, and the punishment adjudged was imprisonment in the state penitentiary for a term of five years. He appeals to *309this court, and the errors relied on for reversal are: The refusal of a continuance, the insufficiency of the evidence, and the denial of a motion for a new trial upon the ground of newly-discovered evidence. On December 13, 1893, in the nighttime, the store building of Daniel Birchfield, at Centraba, was broken open while the sheriff, Birchfield and several other…