State v. Higgins

The defendant and one McGuire were jointly indicted at the May term, 1883, of the St. Louis criminal court, for burglary and larceny, alleged to have been committed on the twenty-ninth of April, 1883. At the March term, 1883, defendant, Higgins, having been granted a severance, had a trial and was convicted of both burglary and larceny, and sentenced to three years imprisonment in the penitentiary for the burglary, and two years for the larceny. He has appealed from the judgment of the court of appeals, affirming that of the •criminal court, and in the brief filed by his counsel which is a…