State v. Buchanan

Tbe defendant is indicted for tbe larceny of one pocket-book and eighty-five dollars in money. There was no evidence as to tbe pocket-book, but there was evidence tending to connect him with tbe larceny of tbe money said to have been in the pocket-book. The exceptions and assignments of error do not point so directly to tbe larceny as they do to tbe question of jurisdiction. Tbe prosecuting witness Morris testified that in August, 1901, be took tbe train at Atlanta, Ga., for Hamlet, N. C., which left Atlanta about 8 o’clock p. m. He was tired and slept most of the way from Atlanta to Monroe,…