Baker v. State

The Chief Justice

delivered the opinion of the court.

Baker was indicted for the crime of larceny of five thousand oranges, of the value of sixty dollars, of the goods, chattels and property of William A. Cone, sheriff and ex-officio administrator of the estate of Philemon Whilite, deceased.

From the very inartificial manner in which the record is made up, it is somewhat difficult to ascertain what transpired at the trial. With some difficulty we have gathered from the record the following facts:

That Philemon Whilite died, leaving a widow and family residing on the land from which the oranges…