Free v. State

Indictment against the appellant for larceny. The indictment was found at the March term of the Court, 1858, and charged the defendant with the larceny of certain goods of one George Emerson, on the 10th day of October, 1855. It also charges that he concealed the fact of such larceny from the time it was committed until the 1st of March, 1858.

Trial, conviction of petit larceny, motion for a new trial overruled, and judgment on the verdict.

On the trial of the cause the Court gave to the jury the following instruction, to which the defendant excepted, viz.:.

“ If you believe, from the evidence,…