Taylor v. State

Appellant was convicted of the offense of grand larceny. It seems he had a contract with the Plorala Lumber Company, a corporation, to cut certain timber for it, and, as the subject of the larceny, for which he was convicted, was specified portions' of this timber, or the lumber made therefrom, his counsel advances, in his behalf, the proposition that, the timber being rightfully in his possession, he could not be convicted of its larceny “without proof pf the felonious Intent on the part of defendant at the time he received the property,” citing Fox v. State, 205 Ala. 74, 87 So. 623.

The…