Andrews v. State
Supreme Court of Alabama
Appeal from tlie Circuit Cohrt of Wilcox. Tried before tlie 1-Ion. John Moore. Tlie appellant was tried and convicted under an indictment wbicli charged that he feloniously took and carried away “from the warehouse of the Pensacola and Selma division of the Louisville & Nashville Railroad Company, a corporation under the laws of the State of Kentucky, a twenty dollar bill of the lawful currency of the United States of America, a further description of which is unknown to…
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Appeal from tlie Circuit Cohrt of Wilcox. Tried before tlie 1-Ion. John Moore. Tlie appellant was tried and convicted under an indictment wbicli charged that he feloniously took and carried away “from the warehouse of the Pensacola and Selma division of the Louisville & Nashville Railroad Company, a corporation under the laws of the State of Kentucky, a twenty dollar bill of the lawful currency of the United States of America, a further description of which is unknown to this grand jury, the personal property of the Louisville & Nashville Railroad Company.” Tlie facts of the case pertaining…
1Opinion of the CourtHaralson, J.
The indictment charged that the money stolen was the property of the Louisville & Nashville Railroad Company, and it was stolen by defendant from the warehouse of the Pensacola & Selma Division *44of saitl railroad company. The proof tended to sustain tlie allegations of the indictment. The State introduced in evidence the charter of said railroad company showing it to bare been incorporated under the laws of Kentucky, and asked the depot agent who was being examined, “Whether the railroad at Allenton depot in said county was the Pensacola & Selma Division of the Louisville & Nashville Railroad…
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