Van Straaten v. People

The plaintiffs in error were tried and convicted in the dis*185tricfc court of El Paso county, for the larceny of two copper-plates, of the value of $700, the property of the Gold Crater Mining Company, and sentenced to the penitentiary, at hard labor, for the term of three years. To reverse this error they bring the case here on error.

The testimony introduced on the part of the people is to the effect that the copper plates in question were, during the night of October 31, 1896, taken- from what is known as the Summit mill, and were found on the forenoon of November 1. in the ore room of the…