State v. Skillings

The offense which the respondent is charged with having committed on December 13,1949, is that of larceny from the home of Sarah A. Rollins of $12,000 belonging to her. R. L., c. 452, s. 3, as amended by Laws 1949, c. 140, s. 1.

Mrs. Rollins was an aged woman, ninety-one at the time of her death in April, 1950, who suffered a cerebral hemorrhage on November 20, 1949. Thereafter for the most part, she was confined to her bed until her death. According to the evidence it had been reputed for some time that she kept large sums of money about her home, and in 1948 she was advised to “count her…