State v. Chambers
West Virginia Supreme Court
"Woodb, Judge, furnishes the following statement of the case: On the 9th day of April, 1883, Joseph,Chambers was indicted in the circuit court of Ohio county for the simple larceny of a pocket-book containg thirty-eight dollars in money from Elizabeth Emblen in the city of Wheeling, in said county on the 16th of December, 1882. The indictment which contained two counts, was in the usual form.
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"Woodb, Judge, furnishes the following statement of the case: On the 9th day of April, 1883, Joseph,Chambers was indicted in the circuit court of Ohio county for the simple larceny of a pocket-book containg thirty-eight dollars in money from Elizabeth Emblen in the city of Wheeling, in said county on the 16th of December, 1882. The indictment which contained two counts, was in the usual form. In the first count, the pocket-book and money were alleged to be the property of James Emblen; in the second count the said pocket-book and money were alleged to be the property of said Elizabeth Emblen.…
1Opinion of the Court
Woods, Judge:
The circuit court having certified the evidence, instead of the facts proved, on which the jury rendered their verdict, this Court will be obliged to do as they did, and disregard all the evidence offered by the prisoner, which was in conflict with that offered by the State, for the jury must have disregarded it altogether, as the only witness examined on behalf of the prisoner was himself, who denied every material fact in regard to the alleged larceny, testified to, by the said Elizabeth Emblen, and the witness Máry Grill, both of whom testified that the prisoner committed the…
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