Williams v. People

Mose Williams and Frank Lewis were tried and found guilty at the March term, 1881, of the Randolph circuit court, before the court and a jury, upon a charge of having knowingly and feloniously received, for their own gain, certain bank bills and gold coin, well knowing the same to have .been stolen, and were duly sentenced to the penitentiary, in pursuance of the verdict of the jury, for a period of eighteen months,—to reverse which conviction this writ of error is prosecuted.

A reversal is urged mainly on two grounds: First, it is urged that the conviction is not warranted by the evidence;…