Strouther v. Commonwealth
Supreme Court of Virginia
Error to a judgment of the Corporation Court of the city of Winchester, rendered July 23, 1895, sentencing the plaintiff in error to confinement in the penitentiary for a term of five years. This was an indictment for larceny. The indictment contained two counts. The first count charged the plaintiff in error, Carter Strouther, with the larceny of a horse in the city of Winchester, Ya.
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Error to a judgment of the Corporation Court of the city of Winchester, rendered July 23, 1895, sentencing the plaintiff in error to confinement in the penitentiary for a term of five years. This was an indictment for larceny. The indictment contained two counts. The first count charged the plaintiff in error, Carter Strouther, with the larceny of a horse in the city of Winchester, Ya. The second count charged that the plaintiff in error, “on the - day of June, 1895, at the county of Berkley, in the State of West Yirginia, did then and there feloniously steal, take, and carry away from the…
1Opinion of the CourtHarrison, J.
The question raised in this case is, whether or not one who steals property at a place beyond the jurisdiction of this State, and brings the same into this State, can be lawfully convicted of the larceny in our courts.
The Attorney-General relies on section 3890 of the Code as furnishing legislative authority for taking jurisdiction in such cases. This-section was only intended to define the jurisdiction of our courts to try the offences. arising under certain special statutes, and has no application here.
The case of Commonwealth v. Gaines, 2 Va. Cases, p. 172, is also relied on as a precedent…
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