State v. . Sanders

The defendant was charged in the bill of indictment with the larceny of divers articles, and among them a vest, and on the trial, he took two exceptions, one to the admission in evidence of a certain confession to Dr. Leach, and the other to the charge of the judge to the jury, and these constitute the only points for the determination of this court.

The state having offered evidence tending to show the larceny, and that, in a few dajs thereafter, the goods were found in an outhouse on the plantation of Dr. Leach, in Johnston county, on which the defendant was living as his hireling, and also…