Shelton v. State

Thomas Shelton was indicted and convicted in the Criminal Court of Shelby County for the larceny of 'a gold watch. Motion for new trial having been overruled, he appealed in error to this Court.

The evidence unmistakably establishes the guilt of the prisoner, showing that he took the watch on the sixteenth day of May, 1895, and that its value was $45.

*523By Section 1, Chapter 188, of the Acts of 1883, grand larceny is the felonious taking and carrying away of the personal goods of another of greater value than $30; while, under the Act passed and approved May 14, 1895, two days before the taking…