Ransom v. State
Supreme Court of Connecticut
This was an information, brought to the county court, against Robert Ransom, for theft, charging him with having stolen a pocket-book and various bank-bills, amounting to the sum of forty-three dollars,—the property of Charles H. Cooper.
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This was an information, brought to the county court, against Robert Ransom, for theft, charging him with having stolen a pocket-book and various bank-bills, amounting to the sum of forty-three dollars,—the property of Charles H. Cooper. The defendant pleaded not guilty, and, upon the trial to the jury, the prosecutor introduced evidence to prove, that, on the 28th day of April, 185J, the pocket-book and money described in the information, were lost on the public highway, in the town of Montville, near the inn of Russell Sheldon ; that within two hours after said property was so lost, it was…
1Opinion of the CourtStores, J.
It must be assumed, on this -motion, that the goods, which the defendant was charged with having stolen, were, by the owner, lost, in the ordinary sense of that term, that is, casually, and not in a manner to indicate, that he intended to abandon or part with his property in them; and the first question made by the defendant, and which was involved in the charge below, is, whether such goods can, under any circumstances, be the subject of larceny. We are of opinion, that both on principle, and on a just consideration of the authorities, there is no difference, between lost goods and those in…
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