State v. Larkin
Supreme Court of New Hampshire
The indictment was against John E. Larkin, Charles M. Green and Jennette Elliott, and contained two counts. The first was for feloniously stealing sundry bank bills, the property of Edmund Elliott, to the amount of $315.00. The second was for receiving certain bank bills knowing them to be stolen. Larkin alone was tried, the other two respondents not having been arrested.
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The indictment was against John E. Larkin, Charles M. Green and Jennette Elliott, and contained two counts. The first was for feloniously stealing sundry bank bills, the property of Edmund Elliott, to the amount of $315.00. The second was for receiving certain bank bills knowing them to be stolen. Larkin alone was tried, the other two respondents not having been arrested. The evidence in the case tended to show that the three respondents and one Ann Elliott, formed a plan to elope — Green with Jennette Elliott, who was the wife of Charles Elliott, and Larkin with Ann Elliott, who was not…
1Opinion of the CourtFoster, J.
The main question presented by the case relates to the testimony of Mrs. Haines concerning the admissions and declarations of Jennette Elliott, inculpating the respondent, Larkin. Were these declarations admissible in evidence ?
They were made in the course of a conversation which Jennette had with the witness, Mrs. Haines, very soon after the former returned from the west, which was about two weeks after the money -was stolen. The respondent was not present vhen they were made. These declarations implicated the respondent in the commission of the offence charged in the second count in the…
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- Sundry Goods, Wares & Merchandises v. United StatesSupreme Court of the United States · 1829
- State v. ThibeauSupreme Court of Vermont · 1858
- Browning v. StateMississippi Supreme Court · 1856
- Chesapeake & Ohio Canal Co. v. Union Bank of GeorgetownU.S. Circuit Court for the District of District of Columbia · 1830
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