Shaw v. Commonwealth

Opinion of the Court by

Judge Thomas

Affirming.

The grand jury of Lewis county returned an indictment against appellant and defendant below, Noah Shaw, in the first count of which he was charged with the offense of grand larceny, by stealing and appropriating to his own use certain enumerated articles of personal property belonging to E. B. Hale, without the latter’s consent, and of the aggregate value of $64. The second count in the indictment averred that the property was stolen by some person unknown to the grand jury, and that defendant afterwards received it, knowing that it had been…