People v. Pool

By the Court, Cürrey, J.

The defendant was indicted with others for the murder of Joseph M. Staples, committed on the first day of July, 1864, at a place called Somerset House, in El Dorado County. The defendant plead not guilty. On the trial it was proved that at about ten o’clock of the evening of the day previous, the defendant with thirteen other persons stopped two stage coaches which were on their way from the then Territory of Nevada to Placerville, in the County of El Dorado, and by violence took from one! of them a large amount of gold— gold coin and bullion—which was in the custody…