Hill v. State

The plaintiff in error was convicted in the Circuit Court of Bedford county, for larceny, in stealing two twenty dollar bank notes upon the Shelbyville Bank of Tennessee, and has prosecuted an appeal in error to this Court.

The ownership of the bank notes is laid, in the indictment, to be in John B. Bates, and the main error relied upon here for a reversal is, that this averment is *455not sustained by tbe proof, and that the Circuit Judge erred in holding that it was.

Bates was a constable, and had collected these notes for John E. Hall, a creditor. He told Hall he had the money, and would bring…