State v. Tilney

The opinion of the court was delivered by

Johnston, J.:

In August, 1887, Robert Tilney was convicted on a charge of grand larceny, and sentenced to confinement at hard labor in the state penitentiary for a term of four years. The information on which the conviction rests charges that he “did then and there unlawfully and feloniously steal, take, and carry away national bank notes, United States treasury notes, and United States silver certificates, money of the amount and value of one thousand dollars.” It was contended in the trial court, and the same point is here made, that the information…