Collins v. People

The plaintiff in error, defendant below, was convicted of larceny. He has sued out a writ of error, and the cause is before us upon his application for a supersedeas.

The information to which the defendant pleaded and upon which the trial was begun, charged the defendant with the larceny of “the personal goods and chattels of Mrs. C. C. Hamlin, to-wit, three saddles.”

At the trial, the first witness for the people was Mrs. C. C. Hamlin, the person whose property was alleged to have been stolen. She testified that four saddles were stolen from a garage, one belonging to Mrs. Gunnell, one to Mr.…