Hendricks and Brooks v. State

This was a conviction for larceny with a sentence of eleven months and twenty-nine days. The plaintiffs in error were jointly indicted for larceny and for concealing stolen goods, consisting of four cart wheels of the .alleged value of $48, the property of thek Federal Chemical Company, a manufacturer of fertilizers, located in the suburbs of Nashville. An old negro peddling water melons, and driving a wagon which belonged to Hendricks, was stopped by one of the employees of the Federal Company who claimed to recognize the four wheels on the wag’on as wheels which had been owned and used by…