Eaton v. Commonwealth

Opinion of the Court by

Drury, Commissioner

Affirming.

J. J. Eaton appeals from a judgment imposing upon him a year of confinement in the penitentiary for grand larceny. Some one entered the mine of the WilsonJBerger Coal Company and cut down and removed several hundred feet of copper wire. This wire is what is known as “figure 8 wire,” and, before it was cut down, it was attached to posts in this mine and was used as a trolley wire.

When they undertook to sell this wire to one Dutch Bryant, J. H. Smith and J. J. Eaton were arrested and •charged with larceny.

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