State v. . Hauser
Supreme Court of North Carolina
Appeal by defendants from Harding, J., at January Term, 1922, of Eoesyth. The defendants were charged with stealing one diamond of the value of $700, the property of 1!. P. Orr, and for receiving the same knowing it to be stolen. The defendant Kate Hauser was found guilty of larceny of the stone, and Curtis Gentry guilty of receiving the same knowing it to be stolen.
1Opinion of the CourtClark, C. J.
Tbe indictment charged the larceny of one diamond of the value of $700, the property of M. P. Orr. The evidence for the State, if believed, is conclusive that Kate Hauser was guilty of larceny of the diamond, which was a large diamond set in the center of a brooch, surrounded by pearls and small diamonds. She stole the brooch and it was later recovered in the same form as stolen. There was no separation of the diamond from the brooch. The defendant’s counsel contends, however, that larceny of a diamond being charged in the bill and the proof being that it was s.et in the brooch, was a fatal…
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