State v. Wolf
New York Court of General Session of the Peace
Indictment for Larceny. At the trial the State proved that on the morning of the 30th day of April, 1907, when George F. Betts, trading as George F. Betts and Company and doing business as a leather manufacturer on the northwest comer of Conrad and Adams Streets in the City of Wilmington, went to his place of business, he missed certain brass parts from the machinery in his plant, among them being a pump dome, several valves and two lubricators, all brass, and which when he…
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Indictment for Larceny. At the trial the State proved that on the morning of the 30th day of April, 1907, when George F. Betts, trading as George F. Betts and Company and doing business as a leather manufacturer on the northwest comer of Conrad and Adams Streets in the City of Wilmington, went to his place of business, he missed certain brass parts from the machinery in his plant, among them being a pump dome, several valves and two lubricators, all brass, and which when he last saw the same, on April the 27th, were attached to certain parts of the machinery; that said articles were owned by…
1Opinion of the Court
Grubb, J.,
charging the jury,
Gentlemen of the jury.—-John Wolf, the prisoner at the bar, stands charged in the indictment with the larceny of a certain piece of machinery commonly called a pump dome, of the value of twenty dollars lawful money of the United States óf America; and fifty pounds of brass, each pound thereof of the value of twelve cents like lawful money as aforesaid, of the goods and chattels of George F. Betts, trading as George F. Betts and Company.
As very nice technical questions have been raised by the counsel in this case, we will define to you what larceny is in law.…
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