Wood v. State

The appellant was tried and convicted of the crime of grand larceny in stealing a pistol, the property of one Cheek.

The pistol, which was of the value of f 8, was taken from the room of the owner, at a hotel, and out of a coat pocket, on the night of the fifth of August, 1879; and was, on the fifteenth of the same month, found in the defendant’s possession.

The defendant, a lawyer, had been for three or four years very intemperate, and for several weeks before he was found with the pistol in his possession, almost continuously drunk. On the night of the fifteenth of August, he was very drunk —…