Davis v. People

The plaintiffs in error, Esau Davis, Thomas Drew, Maud Sullivan, James Burns, and Timothy Drew, were indicted upon a charge of conspiracy to commit a felony, to wit, larceny of money from one Mike Johnson. As a bar to prosecution under this indictment, Maud Sullivan filed a plea of former conviction, and Timothy Drew filed a plea of former acquittal. These pleas set forth that at the January term, 1894, of the district court of Arapahoe county, Maud Sullivan and Timothy Drew were tried upon an indictment charging them with stealing the money in question from Johnson ; that upon such trial…