Toliver v. State
Supreme Court of Alabama
From the City Court of Montgomery. Tried before the Hon. Taos. M. Arrington. The defendant in this case was indicted for the larceny of fourteen cows, the personal property of Jack Smith; was convicted, and sentenced to the penitentiary for five years. The opinion states the material facts in connection with the ruling which works a reversal of the case.
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From the City Court of Montgomery. Tried before the Hon. Taos. M. Arrington. The defendant in this case was indicted for the larceny of fourteen cows, the personal property of Jack Smith; was convicted, and sentenced to the penitentiary for five years. The opinion states the material facts in connection with the ruling which works a reversal of the case. The defendant, testifying in his own behalf, “offered to explain his object in fleeing from arrestand he excepted to the exclusion of this evidence by the court. He also excepted to the refusal of several charges asked by him in writing, one…
1Opinion of the CourtStone, C. J.
— The defendant was indicted and convicted: of grand larceny, .cattle being the subject of the theft. The-indictment was joint against defendant and Alfred Thomasi. *112The testimony was that, shortly after the cattle disappeared, four of them were brought by defendant to the city of Montgomery, . and there offered for sale. Hé was arrested, tried before the Oity Recorder, and, under his sentence of conviction for a violation of the city ordinance, suffered the punishment imposed. On being discharged from .the custody of the city authorities he fled, and two years later he was captured in the…
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