Duvall v. State
Supreme Court of Alabama
From the City Court of Montgomery. Tried before the Hon. John A. Muráis. The indictment in this case contained but a single count, which charged that the defendants, Frank Duvall and Charles Pelham, “feloniously took and carried away sundry United States treasury-notes, or national-bank bills, the number and denomination of which are to the grand jury unknown, of the aggregate value of forty dollars, and the personal property of Isaiah Bozeman.”
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From the City Court of Montgomery. Tried before the Hon. John A. Muráis. The indictment in this case contained but a single count, which charged that the defendants, Frank Duvall and Charles Pelham, “feloniously took and carried away sundry United States treasury-notes, or national-bank bills, the number and denomination of which are to the grand jury unknown, of the aggregate value of forty dollars, and the personal property of Isaiah Bozeman.” “ The case was tried,” as the bill of exceptions states, “ on the plea of not guilty; and Isaiah Bozeman, a colored man, was examined as a witness…
1Opinion of the CourtStone, J.
Charges 2, 3, and 4, asked by defendants and refused by the court, all raise the same question. The testimony tended to show that two twenty-dollar bills, treasury-notes of the United States, were stolen from Isaiah Bozeman. There was no independent testimony that these notes had any value. Th- proposition of these charges is, that evidence that the ^ppgg^Y stolen consisted of two twenty-dollar bills, know.!, ,/1 -}reenbacks,” does not show they were of any value. The term “ greenbacks,” as a designation of United States treasury-notes, has grown into such general use, that neither courts nor…
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