State v. O'Connell
Supreme Court of Missouri
Appeal from St. Louis City Circuit Court. — Hon. P. R. Flitcraet, Judge. (1) At common law mere choses in action, as bonds, bills and notes were not goods whereof larceny could be committed. State v. Porter, 75 Mo. 171; People v. Loomis, 4 Denio, 382; Wilsonv. State, 1 Porter, 120; State v. Steffins, 132 Mo. 332. (2) Our statute has not changed the common law in this respect except as to notes which have been delivered to the payee by the maker or indorser thereof.
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Appeal from St. Louis City Circuit Court. — Hon. P. R. Flitcraet, Judge. (1) At common law mere choses in action, as bonds, bills and notes were not goods whereof larceny could be committed. State v. Porter, 75 Mo. 171; People v. Loomis, 4 Denio, 382; Wilsonv. State, 1 Porter, 120; State v. Steffins, 132 Mo. 332. (2) Our statute has not changed the common law in this respect except as to notes which have been delivered to the payee by the maker or indorser thereof. State v. Porter, 75 Mo. 171. (3) In pleading the two different certificates (the certificate of deposit in the bank and the stock…
1Opinion of the CourtGantt, P. J.
On the sixteenth day of November, 1896, Mrs. Callie Hamilton, who resided at number 1827 Olive street in the city of St. Louis, while walking on Olive street between Twenty-seventh and Twenty-eighth, about 3:30 o’clock in the afternoon, saw defendant approaching her as if he recognized her and with his hand extended, as she thought, to speak to her and shrike hands with her, and thinking he was an acquaintance she looked up in his face when he suddenly snatched her purse and ran away. She at once pursued him, and several men and boys joined in the pursuit but he escaped. The police department…
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