Stover v. . People of the State of N.Y.

The judge charged the jury, among other things, that if the larceny had been recently committed, and the fruits of the crime (that is the stolen property) are found upon the prisoner, the law raises the presumption that he was the guilty party. To this part of the charge the counsel for the plaintiff in error excepted. The counsel for the accused insists that this is to be construed as an instruction to the jury that, from proof that property had been stolen, and recently thereafter been found in the possession of the accused, which possession was unexplained by him, it was a presumption of…