Adams v. State

There is one view of the evidence for the State which strongly supports the conclusion that the accused, if guilty of any offense whatever, intended only to use the prosecutor’s mule without the knowledge or consent of the prosecutor, and if the jury had taken this view the defendant should have been acquitted. However, where larceny is charged and a taking is shown, the jury must necessarily be the exclusive judges of the intention which actuated the accused in the asportation. “It is not necessary, to constitute larceny, that the property should be itself permanently appropriated. It is…