Gardner v. State

The defendant was arraigned in the city court of Richmond county on an accusation charging her with simple larceny, in that she privately, wrongfully and fraudulently took and carried away, with intent to steal the same, a lot of chickens of the value of ten dollars. By consent the case was tried before the judge of the court without a jury. The evidence in behalf of the State was to the effect, that the defendant privately took and carried away from a large chicken-house of the prosecutor the goods alleged to have been stolen. A judgment of guilty was rendered, and the case was brought to…