Gabriel v. State

In November, 1901, an information was filed in the Criminal Court of Record of Hilsborough county, charging plaintiff in error, by the first count, with larceny, and by the second court with receiving stolen property. The property was described in the second' count as “two two cases of cigars, both of the value of five hundred dollars, of the goods and chattels of the said Savannah, Florida and Western Railway Company, a corporation, then lately before, feloniously stolen, taken and carried away.” At the conclusion of the evidence for the State, the defendant offering no testimony, the State…