Wilbur v. Territory

The plaintiff in error, Frank A. Wilbur, was indicted and tried in the district court for Laramie county, on a charge of larceny as bailee, convicted, and sentenced for the term of 13 months. He assigned as ground for reversal a defect in the indictment, and error of the court in refusing and in giving instruction. The charging part of the indictment is as follows: “Do present and find that Frank Wilbur, on the 18th day of September, 1888, at the county aforesaid, being the bailee of one watch and chain of the value of $43, the goods, chattels, and personal property of-, copartners doing…