State v. Wilson

The opinion of the court was delivered by

Pollock, J. :

About four o’clock on the morning of December 22,1901, the safe in the office of the county treasurer of Rawlins county, at Atwood, was blown open, and a large sum of money, in the aggregate about $1933, was taken therefrom. Appellant was arrested, charged, tried, and convicted of this offense, and appeals to this court.

The evidence is entirely circumstantial. Appellant, a married man, stayed at night on a farm close to the town. His family lived in a building not far from the scene of the crime. After the commission of the crime a reward…