State v. St. Clair
Supreme Court of Iowa
Appeal from Des Moines District Court. The defendant, indicted for receiving and aiding in concealing stolen goods, knowing the same to be stolen, pleaded not guilty; was tried, convicted,- and after his motions in arrest and for a new trial were overruled, Rad tRe sentence of tRe law duly passed upon Rim; from wRicR Re appeals.
1Opinion of the CourtLowe, J.
1. Criminal law: stolen property. The record presents no perceptible error, or questions of law arising upon tRe pleadings, or in any of tRe trial, unless it was tRe overruling of the motion for a new trial, because tRe verdict wag agj¿nst tRe weight of evidence, and this is the question chiefly relied upon in the discussion at bar. TRe testimony is all in the record. It is not insisted that it furnishes any direct proof of the prisoner’s guilt, but that such guilt is inferable from the relation which Re sustained to other confessedly guilty parties, and especially the criminative attitude in…
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