State v. Cummings
Supreme Court of Connecticut
Information for theft. Upon the trial of the case to the jury iu the superior court, before Phelps, J., upon the plea of not guilty, the state claimed to have proved that the article alleged to have been stolen, — a diamond-ring of great value— was the property of Mrs. Henry O. Hood of the city of Washington, in the District of Columbia; that it was lost from her finger in a wash-tub while she was engaged in washing in the tub, and missed by her within ten or fifteen minutes…
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Information for theft. Upon the trial of the case to the jury iu the superior court, before Phelps, J., upon the plea of not guilty, the state claimed to have proved that the article alleged to have been stolen, — a diamond-ring of great value— was the property of Mrs. Henry O. Hood of the city of Washington, in the District of Columbia; that it was lost from her finger in a wash-tub while she was engaged in washing in the tub, and missed by her within ten or fifteen minutes after-wards, dui’ing which interval the accused, who was then a servant in her family, had been washing in the same tub…
1Opinion of the CourtMcCurdy, J.
The question in this case respects the correctness of the charge.
The court instructed the jury that the state must show clearly that the prisoner took the ring with the intent, at the time of the taking, to convert it to her own use, and that if the jury found such a taking or finding and conversion of the ring by the prisoner as was claimed by the state, and found *264the intent by the prisoner to steal the ring at the time of such taking or finding, the offence was complete in the District of Columbia.
What then are the facts as claimed to be proved by the-state. They are, that the owner of the…
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