Buchanan v. State

The defendant was charged with and convicted of petit larceny. It developed during the course of the trial that the value of the property (a syrup pan) alleged to have been stolen from the prosecutor, Sam Adams, was $25; and the bill of exceptions shows that the defendant excepted to the following portion of the oral charge of the court: “If you believe from the evidence beyond a reasonable doubt that the defendant, in Lee county, within 12 months before the commencement of the prosecution, feloniously took and carried away the syrup pan of Mr. Sam Adams, then you are authorized to find the…