Jones v. Commonwealth

Opinion by

Judge Hargis:

Where the owner parts with only the possession’ of property, which he is induced to do by the fraudulent practices of the defendant, who intends, at the time he obtains the possession, feloniously to convert the property to his own use, the defendant is guilty of larceny. It is true that where the owner parts with the *955title to the property, although he may be cheated and defrauded out of the title by the person receiving it, the offense is not larceny.

' In the case before us the testimony is that the accused approached Mr. Shadburn while he was sitting on the platform…