Jenkins v. State
Wisconsin Supreme Court
ERROR to the Circuit Court for Grant County. The plaintiff in error was tried upon an information charging that on June 29, 1882, in the county of Grant, he received certain moneys, bills, and notes of the value of $2,800, the property of the United States Express Company, which had theretofore been feloniously and burglariously stolen and taken away by some person unknown: he, the said plaintiff in error, then and there well knowing that the same had been stolen.
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ERROR to the Circuit Court for Grant County. The plaintiff in error was tried upon an information charging that on June 29, 1882, in the county of Grant, he received certain moneys, bills, and notes of the value of $2,800, the property of the United States Express Company, which had theretofore been feloniously and burglariously stolen and taken away by some person unknown: he, the said plaintiff in error, then and there well knowing that the same had been stolen. It was proved on the trial that on said June 29th the First National Bank of Milwaukee delivered to the agent of the express…
1Opinion of the Court
The following opinion was filed November 6, 1884:
Lyon, J.
This case was here at the last term of this court on the report of the circuit judge, and it was then held that the court properly directed the information to be amended to aver that the moneys therein mentioned were stolen by some unknown person, and that tho verdict was sufficient. 60 Wis. 599. It was stated in the opinion that the original information contained but one count, which was for receiving the stolen moneys. Of course, the same is true of the amended information. Yet the brief of counsel for the prosecution starts out with…
2Cases cited2 opinions
- State v. GrebeSupreme Court of Kansas · 1877
- State v. JenkinsWisconsin Supreme Court · 1884
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