McIntosh v. State
Supreme Court of Alabama
Appeal from Circuit Court of Wilcox. Tried before Hon. John K. Henry. Tbe appellant was convicted of tbe larceny of a saddle, the property of one Tom Smith.
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Appeal from Circuit Court of Wilcox. Tried before Hon. John K. Henry. Tbe appellant was convicted of tbe larceny of a saddle, the property of one Tom Smith. On tbe trial tbe State introduced tbe owner of tbe saddle, who testified that it and the blanket were stolen from his horse ; “ that he told defendant, a negro house servant aged about nineteen years, who was not suspected, if he would find the thief and the saddle he would give him five dollars, and about one week thereafter defendant brought back the saddle, and asked for the .reward; that witness refused to pay the money unless he…
1Opinion of the CourtJudge, J.
The reward offered was for the delivery of the saddle and the detection of the thief, and not to induce a confession of guilt from the prisoner, who was not even suspected of being the guilty party. The confession was voluntarily made, without the appliances of hope or fear, by any other person, and the circuit court did not err in permitting it-to be introduced as evidence. Nor did the court err in its charge given to the jury, that they must take the confession in connection with the other evidence in the case, and give it such weight as they might think it entitled to.. The court sentenced…
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