Commonwealth v. Randall
Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court
Indictment on the Gen. Sts. c. 161, § 18, charging that the defendant on November 12,1874, at Rockport, in the County of Essex, “ one hundred railroad tickets, of the value of one dollar each ticket, thirty other railroad tickets, of the value of seventy cents each ticket, of the goods and chattels of the Eastern Railroad Company, a corporation duly established by law in said Commonwealth, then and there in the possession of said corporation being found in the building of…
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Indictment on the Gen. Sts. c. 161, § 18, charging that the defendant on November 12,1874, at Rockport, in the County of Essex, “ one hundred railroad tickets, of the value of one dollar each ticket, thirty other railroad tickets, of the value of seventy cents each ticket, of the goods and chattels of the Eastern Railroad Company, a corporation duly established by law in said Commonwealth, then and there in the possession of said corporation being found in the building of said corporation in said Rock-port, then and there feloniously did steal, take and carry away, in the building aforesaid,…
1Opinion of the CourtAmes, J.
The evidence at least tended to show that five packages of tickets, containing one hundred each, belonging to the Eastern Railroad Company, and numbered in regular succession as far as No. 500, were placed in the hands of their agent Saville; that shortly afterwards one of these packages, containing tickets numbered from 200 to 300, was found to be missing ; and that two tickets, identical in appearance and general description with those contained in the missing package, and numbered *109as they should have been if contained in that package, were found in the possession of the defendant. This…
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