State v. Brundige
Supreme Court of Iowa
Appeal from Blachhaiok District Court. — Hon. Franklin C. Platt, Judge. Indictment charging defendant with the crime of breaking and entering a railroad car with intent to commit larceny. There was a verdict of guilty, and the defendant, having been sentenced to a term in the penitentiary, appeals.
1Opinion of the CourtWeaver, J.
The testimony tended to show that on the night of May 8, 1900, a pail of “Sterling tobacco” was stolen from a freight car on the Illinois Central Railroad while in course of shipment from Dubuque to Claire, Iowa; that the car in which the tobacco was being carried was properly sealed at Waterloo, but on reaching Austinville, in Butler county, was found to have been broken open; that on reaching Ackley, in Hardin county, the contents of the car were checked over, and a pail of Sterling tobacco discovered to be missing; that on May 14th the pail of tobacco was found upstairs in a house occupied…
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