Berneker v. State

During the February, A. D. 1894, term of the district court of Douglas county, on March 2, there was an information filed in said court, charging the plaintiff in error with the crime of receiving stolen property, certain goods and merchandise, of the alleged total valuation of $90.25. A trial was had to the court and a jury, which resulted in a verdict of guilty, the value of the property being assessed in the verdict at the sum of $35.15. Motion for a new trial was filed for the plaintiff in error, which, on hearing, was overruled and the plaintiff sentenced to a term of three years in the…