State v. Albert

There is no contention here that the property is other than personalty in character. The indictment charges a single offense, and the case was tried upon the theory that the taking of the several pieces of personal property described therein constituted but one offense. This theory will be followed here. That the taking of the property constitutes a single larceny if committed pursuant to a single impulse and in execution of a general felonious scheme, see 2 Wharton’s Criminal Law (11 ed.), § 1169; 1 McClain on Criminal Law, 584; 36 C. J., Larceny, §§ 218, 219; 7 L. R. A. (N. S.), 520, 523,…