State v. Murphy

This was an indictment substantially as follows: The grand jurors, &c., present that Joseph Murphy, on, &c., at, &e., one bee-hive, one hundred pounds of honejr, ten pounds of wax, and one swarm of bees, of the value of five dollars, of the personal goods of Moses IS. Chap-, man and James Chapman, then and there being found in the possession of the said Moses S. Chapman and James Chapman, feloniously did steal, take, and carry away, contrary to the form of the statute, &c. Plea, not guilty. Verdict as follows: “We, the jury, find the defendant guilty of petit larceny, and further find that he…