State v. Fox
Supreme Court of Connecticut
Information for stealing copper wire, brought to the Superior Court in New London County and tried to the jury before Ralph Wheeler, J.; verdict and judgment of guilty, and appeal by the accused. The information contained but one count, and charged the accused with the theft of 312 copper bond-wires of the value of $258, of the goods and chattels of the New York, New Haven and Hartford Railroad Company.
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Information for stealing copper wire, brought to the Superior Court in New London County and tried to the jury before Ralph Wheeler, J.; verdict and judgment of guilty, and appeal by the accused. The information contained but one count, and charged the accused with the theft of 312 copper bond-wires of the value of $258, of the goods and chattels of the New York, New Haven and Hartford Railroad Company. It was an undisputed fact upon the trial that that company was the lessee, under a lease for the term of one hundred years beginning in 1869, of a steam railroad owned by the Norwich and…
1Opinion of the CourtThayer, J.
The defendants were formerly prosecuted in the City Court of Norwich as receivers of the stolen goods now in question, and were acquitted by that court. They pleaded that acquittal in bar of the present prosecution. Receivers of stolen goods are to be prosecuted and punished in the same manner as the person who committed the theft. General Statutes, § 1210. Under this statute they could be charged with the theft as principals, or with being receivers of the stolen goods knowing them to be stolen. State v. Kaplan, 72 Conn. 635, 640, 45 Atl. 1018. A conviction or acquittal upon the latter…
2Cases cited9 opinions
- State v. StebbinsSupreme Court of Connecticut · 1861
- State v. KeenaSupreme Court of Connecticut · 1894
- State v. BassermanSupreme Court of Connecticut · 1886
- State v. FinkSupreme Court of Missouri · 1905
- State v. BohleSupreme Court of Missouri · 1904
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3Cited by24 opinions
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- State v. CareySupreme Court of Connecticut · 1992
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