State v. Williams
Supreme Court of Iowa
Appeal from Hancock District Court. — Hon. O. H. Kelley, Judge. Defendant, with others, was indicted for larceny from the person, under Code, section 4837, which provides that-for such offense the sentence shall be imprisonment in the penitentiary not exceeding fifteen years. Defendant was tried separately, and convicted, and was sentenced to ten years’ imprisonment in the penitentiary at hard labor, and from this sentence he appeals.
1Opinion of the CourtMcClain, J.
So far as the facts are material for the determination of this appeal, the evidence as set out in the record tends to show the following: That one Cummings, while entering a railroad car as a passenger, and while upon the platform of the car, was jostled by defendant and others, and his pocketbook was stolen from his inside vest pocket; that, upon an outcry being made by Cummings, this defendant got off the platform of the car where Cummings was, and, passing along the next passenger car on the side opposite from the station platform where the train was standing, entered the second car from…
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- Brown v. PeopleMichigan Supreme Court · 1874
- Randall v. StateIndiana Supreme Court · 1892
- Ridgeway v. StateTexas Supreme Court · 1874
- Chisolm v. StateSupreme Court of Alabama · 1871
- State v. FisherSupreme Court of Iowa · 1898
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