State v. Cassady
Supreme Court of Kansas
Appeal from Atchison District Court. Cassady was charged by information with the crimes of burglary and grand larceny. The information, after the caption and title, is as follows: “S. H. Glenn, county attorney in and for the county of Atchison, state of Kansas, and in the name and by the authority of said state of Kansas, comes here into the district court of said Atchison county, on this 9th day of June, 1873, and gives the said court to understand and be informed, that the…
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Appeal from Atchison District Court. Cassady was charged by information with the crimes of burglary and grand larceny. The information, after the caption and title, is as follows: “S. H. Glenn, county attorney in and for the county of Atchison, state of Kansas, and in the name and by the authority of said state of Kansas, comes here into the district court of said Atchison county, on this 9th day of June, 1873, and gives the said court to understand and be informed, that the defendants George Fleming and David Cassady, late of said Atchison county, on or about the night of the 22d day of…
1Opinion of the Court
The opinion of the court was delivered by
Brewer, J.:
*555i. constitutional lctiv* Princi¡¡&e?dHows* charged. *554Defendant was tried in the district court of Atchison county, on an information charging burglary and grand larceny. The jury found him guilty' of being “an accessary before the fact to grand larceny.” Upon this verdict he was sentenced to two years’ imprisonment. Several questions are presented in the record. The first important *555one is, whether under an information charging a party as principal he can be convicted of being an accessary before the fact? In other words, must not the…
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