State v. Cowell

One Miller delivered twenty-eight tubs of butter to the Chicago & Northwestern Railway Company at Audubon for shipment to New York City, and these were placed in a refrigerator car. When the car reached Des Plaines, Ill., it was discovered that a tub of this butter was missing, and the evidence, other than that of Frank Way, tended to show that it was taken from the car at Carroll. Way testified that defendant entered the car at that place and handed the tub therefrom to him, and that, after concealing it for a time, the witness sold it and divided the proceeds with the defendant. The record…