Case Name: The State of Kansas v. Robert Dorsey
Court: Kansas Supreme Court
Jurisdiction: Kansas
Decision Date: 1887-07
Citations: 37 Kan. 226
Docket Number: 
Parties: The State of Kansas v. Robert Dorsey.
Judges: 
Reporter: Kansas Reports
Volume: 37
Pages: 226–227

Head Matter:
The State of Kansas v. Robert Dorsey.
Prosecution for grand larceny. Erom a conviction and sentence at the February Term, 1887, of the district court of Sumner county, the defendant Dorsey appeals.
Ray & Neustadt, for appellant.
S. B. Bradford, attorney general, and E. A. Austin, for The State.

Opinion:
Per Curiam:
The defendant, Robert Dorsey, was charged upon a criminal information with stealing certain United States treasury notes and certain national bank notes of the aggregate value of $30, and the property of Charles Carr. He was tried upon this charge, and convicted, and was sentenced to imprisonment in the penitentiary for the term of two years; and from this sentence he now appeals to this court. He claims that the larceny was committed by means of his taking the money from the pocket of said Charles Carr, and that the conviction was therefore erroneous, and this he claims upon the theory that he was charged, tried and convicted for larceny generally, under § 78 of the act relating to crimes and punish ments; while he should have been, and could only be, tried or convicted for pocket-picking, under chapter 105 of the Laws of 1886, relating to pickpockets. The question, however, which is attempted to be presented to this court is not in the case, for neither the evidence nor the instructions refused by the trial court have been properly preserved in the record; nor is there anything else in the record which shows the manner in which the money was stolen. The judgment of the court below will be affirmed, upon the authority of the case of The State v. McClintock, ante, p.40.