State v. Manley
Decision Date | 28 May 1888 |
Citation | 74 Iowa 561,38 N.W. 415 |
Parties | STATE v. MANLEY. |
Court | Iowa Supreme Court |
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Appeal from district court, Taylor county; JOHN W. HARVEY, Judge.
The defendant Charles Manley was convicted of the crime of larceny by the verdict of a jury, and was sentenced by the court to a term of imprisonment in the penitentiary, and from that judgment he appealed.J. L. Brown and Charles Thomas, for appellant.
Atty. Gen. A. J. Baker, for respondent.
On the trial the state proved the larceny of the property described in the indictment, and that defendant soon after the larceny had it in possession. It also proved certain statements made by him before he was arrested as to the manner in which he claimed to have obtained possession of it, which in his examination as a witness he admitted were false. He testified that he obtained the property from a person who had it in possession, and from whom he won it at a game of chance, and that he had no knowledge when he received it that it had been stolen; and he introduced other evidence which tended to corroborate him as to the circumstances under which he received it. The court gave the following instruction: The portion of the instruction which we have italicized is erroneous. Under it the jury were warranted in convicting the defendant on proof of the fact that he had the stolen property in his possession, unless he had established to their satisfaction that he did not steal it. But that is not the rule. The defendant was entitled to an acquittal, unless the jury could say, upon a consideration of all of the evidence, that they entertained no reasonable doubt of his...
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