State v. Gray

The first, error complained of by the appellant is that the court wrongly instructed the jury as to what constituted larceny. East,-in his Pleas of the Crown, defines larceny to be the wrongful or fraudulent taking or carrying away by any person of the mere personal goods of another, from any place, with a felonious intent to convert them to his (the taker’s) own use, and make them his own property, without the consent of the owner. Bishop says, it is the taking and removing, by trespass, of personal property, known to belong either generally or specially to another, with the intent to…