Keefer v. State

This was an indictment against George Keefer for grand larceny.

The first count alleges a larceny of three log chains.

The second count charges that the defendant, “three log-chains, of the value of 3 dollars each, of the personal goods,” &c., “which had been before that time feloniously stolen, taken and carried away, did then and there have, receive and conceal, he, the said George Keefer, then and there well knowing said log-chains to have been, as aforesaid, feloniously stolen,” &c.

Before plea, the defendant moved the Court to quash *247the second count on the ground of duplicity. His motion…