State v. Bowyer

BrannoN, J udge:

Nibert, Dewitt, and Bowyer were sentenced to the penitentiary for burglary, and Bowyer took this writ of error. The sole question presented to us is whether the court ought to have set aside the verdict, as not warranted by the evidence. Three men broke and entered the dwelling-house of James Deivitt, a little after dark, and, forcing him to show where he had his money, took from his trunk two hundred dollars. James Dewitt and his sister, the only persons at the house, identified Nibert and Dewitt, but did not recognize the third man. They say he was to them a stranger. Bowyer…