Belote v. State
Mississippi Supreme Court
ERROR, to the Circuit Court of Tippab county. Hon. P. T. Scruggs, judge. The plaintiff in error was indicted in the court below for the larceny of ten bank bills, each of the denomination of five dollars, and alleged to be the property of one Ephraim Strout.
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ERROR, to the Circuit Court of Tippab county. Hon. P. T. Scruggs, judge. The plaintiff in error was indicted in the court below for the larceny of ten bank bills, each of the denomination of five dollars, and alleged to be the property of one Ephraim Strout. He pleaded not guilty. testified as follows: About the ■-day of November, 1857, witness lost about one hundred and sixty dollars, in bank notes of the Empire Bank of the State of Georgia; that each of said notes was of the denomination of five dollars; he kept the money in a pocketbook, which he laid upon the mantelpiece, behind the…
1Opinion of the CourtHandy, J.
The plaintiff in error was indicted and convicted for stealing certain bank bills of the denomination of five dollars, the property of one Ephraim Strout.
The grounds of error relied upon are:
1. The admission, as evidence in behalf of the prosecution, of certain acts of the accused in showing where a part of the stolen property was placed; which acts were done after, and in consequence of, his having made a confession of his guilt under such circumstances as to render that confession inadmissible.
2. The giving of the second instruction to the jury in behalf of the prosecution.
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