Lynch v. State
Supreme Court of Alabama
Prom the City Court of Montgomery. Tried before t’he Hon. Thos. M. Arrington. The indictment in this case charged that the defendant, Gilbert Lynch, “feloniously took and carried.away from a warehouse one trunk, of the value of $50, the personal property of John M. Johnson;” or, as charged in the other counts, of the Western Bailway Company, or the Central Bailroad & Banking Company.
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Prom the City Court of Montgomery. Tried before t’he Hon. Thos. M. Arrington. The indictment in this case charged that the defendant, Gilbert Lynch, “feloniously took and carried.away from a warehouse one trunk, of the value of $50, the personal property of John M. Johnson;” or, as charged in the other counts, of the Western Bailway Company, or the Central Bailroad & Banking Company. On the trial, as appears from the bill of exceptions, the State proved that the defendant took up a trunk from the platform at the Union Depot in the city of Montgomery, which had been checked for the Selma…
1Opinion of the CourtMcCLELLAN, J.
A warehouse is defined to be “a place adapted to the reception and storage of goods and merchandise.” — 2 E. & L. Law Diet., p. 1344; 2 Bouv. Law Diet., p. 799. A cellar, used merely for the deposit of goods intended for removal and sale, is a “warehouse” within the statute of 7 and 8 Geo. 4, defining burglary. — Regina v. Hill, 2 M. & R. 458.
The term “warehouse,” as employed in the Kentucky statutes against larceny, means any house, not an office or shop, in which goods, wares and merchandise are usually deposited for safe-keeping, or for sale, and includes a granary built and used for…
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