People v. Williams

Sharpstein, J.:

The appellant was tried, convicted, and sentenced upon a charge of having stolen, on the 18th of February, 1880, $80 in gold coin, belonging to one George Taylor. The evidence introduced tended to establish the following facts: Taylor, who had been a sailor in the United States navy, was discharged and paid off about the 5th of February, 1880; and on the 17th of that month he took from his pocket and showed to his comrade Carr, who had also been discharged and paid off, eight or nine $20 pieces, and said that he intended to send some of it home to his family in Boston. Taylor…