Wilson v. State
Supreme Court of Alabama
Error from Dallas Circuit Court — Before the Hon. H. W. Collier. This case was decided on points reserved — and was an indictment for larceny. The defendant was charged in two counts, with the larce - ny of four promissory notes.
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Error from Dallas Circuit Court — Before the Hon. H. W. Collier. This case was decided on points reserved — and was an indictment for larceny. The defendant was charged in two counts, with the larce - ny of four promissory notes. The first count set out that the defendant had feloniously stolen, taken,- and carried away, four promissory notes of one hundred dollars each,' the property of one Grice, and concludes, “ the same being found, feloniously did steal, lake, and carry away, the said sum of four hundred dollars, then and there unpaid, and contrary to the form of thestatute, &c.” The…
1Opinion of the Court
By Mr. Justice Saffold :
This was an indictment under the statute, against the prisoner, Wilson, charging him with larceny, the subject of which was four promissory notes of one hundred dollars each, being the property of Grice, the prosecutor. The prisoner was convicted in the Circuit Court of Dallas county. The case is presented for revision to this Court, on points reserved as novel and difficult, by the presiding Judge of the court below, pursuant to the authority of the statute in such cases provided.
All the questions of law arising upon a statement of the fects in evidence, and the…
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