State v. Vari

The opinion of the court was delivered by

Mr. Justice McGowan.

The defendant was indicted for “grand larceny” in stealing sixty dollars from one Frank Carielle “at Magnolia Mines, in the County of Berkeley.” The witnesses were ail Italians recently arrived in the country. They testified through an interpreter, and were unacquainted with the county lines, &c. There was an order separating the witnesses during the trial. As the solicitor was about to rest his case, he remembered that he had not proved the venue, and he asked permission to call C. P. Winters, who was on the jury, to prove that the…