Turner v. State
Supreme Court of Alabama
Appeal from Lowndes Circuit Court. Tried before Hou. A. A. Evans. Scott Turner was indicted for stealing money consisting of greenbacks and silver, the property of James Bolling. The defendant demurred to the indictment, because the value of the paper- currency ivas not alleged, because it failed to allege the person from whom the property was stolen or the place whence it was taken, •because it failed to allege the owner of the property stolen.
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Appeal from Lowndes Circuit Court. Tried before Hou. A. A. Evans. Scott Turner was indicted for stealing money consisting of greenbacks and silver, the property of James Bolling. The defendant demurred to the indictment, because the value of the paper- currency ivas not alleged, because it failed to allege the person from whom the property was stolen or the place whence it was taken, •because it failed to allege the owner of the property stolen. The evidence tended to show that while the defendant was forbidden to go to the safe by Bolling, who “was his'employer, yet he did on several…
1Opinion of the CourtSharpe, J.
— The term “paper currency of the United States of America, commonly called greenbacks” designates notes or bills circulating by authority of the general government as money.. In that class, both United States Treasury notes and those issued for circulation by national banks aré included. — Grant v. State, 55 Ala. 201. These species of currency are judicially known to be of interchangeable commercial value equal to that imported by their face. Duvall v. State. 63 Ala. 12; Gady v. State, 88 Ala. 51. Assisted by common knowledge the averment in the indictment of the amount in dollars of such…
2Cases cited11 opinions
- Hawes v. StateSupreme Court of Alabama · 1889
- Ex parte AcreeSupreme Court of Alabama · 1879
- Grant v. StateSupreme Court of Alabama · 1876
- Washington v. StateSupreme Court of Alabama · 1894
- Duvall v. StateSupreme Court of Alabama · 1879
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