State v. Jackson

The indictment against the defendants was for larceny in stealing six bushels of wheat of the goods and chattels of Gideon Speakman in Duck Creek hundred. The proof was that the farm on which the wheat was grown and the barn from which it was stolen, belonged to the wife of Mr. Speakman in her own right, and not to him; but it further appeared from his evidence that he usually sold and disposed of the proceeds and crops of the farm for his own use with her consent, and that she neither exercised, nor claimed to exercise, any control or ownership over them. And on this evidence the objection…