Jackson v. State

The defendant was convicted of the offense of larceny from the house. The evidence shows that one Fowler, who had possession and control of a mill belonging to one Jones, and was engaged in conducting its operations, began to miss corn from the toll bin. Finally, in an effort to locate the guilty party, he cut up some thin pink and white paper into very-fine particles, so that it would resemble the chaff from the corn, and mixed it with the corn in the bin. A day or two later the defendant brought to the mill some corn, which, upon examination, was found to contain some fine particles of…