Berry v. State

The defendant was accused of stealing four packages of coffee from H. V. Kell Company. lie was a drayman engaged in delivering goods for the H. Y. Kell Company. Upon the defendant’s dray one of the clerks of the corporation found four one-pound packages of coffee. The defendant claimed that this coffee belonged to him. He first said that he bought it from one Westmoreland, and later that he was mistaken in saying he bought it from Westmoreland, — that he bought it from Strickland-Crouch Company. Two of the clerks of H. Y. Kell Company testified that as drayman the defendant had delivered all…