State v. Clifford
Nevada Supreme Court
Appeal from the District Court of the Sixth Judicial District, White Pine County. The facts of this case are substantially as follows: On the twenty-sixth day of February, 1878, there was upon the stage of Gilmer, Saulsbury & Co., five bars of bullion. Each bar was in a leather sack, used by Wells, Fargo & Co., for the shipment of bullion. The bars were numbered and marked “ Christy Mill & Mining Co.,” in plain letters.
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Appeal from the District Court of the Sixth Judicial District, White Pine County. The facts of this case are substantially as follows: On the twenty-sixth day of February, 1878, there was upon the stage of Gilmer, Saulsbury & Co., five bars of bullion. Each bar was in a leather sack, used by Wells, Fargo & Co., for the shipment of bullion. The bars were numbered and marked “ Christy Mill & Mining Co.,” in plain letters. The sacks were also numbered and bad a tag of Wells, Fargo & Co. upon them. Tho bars of bullion were all upon the stage when it left Prairies Ranch, and upon the arrival of…
1Opinion of the Court
By the Court,
Hawley, J.:
Appellant questions the correctness of several instructions given by the court as to the facts necessary to justify a conviction of the finder of lost property of the crime of larceny.
The rules of law relating to this subject and applicable to the facts of this case, as gleaned from the authorities, *76wbicli are very numerous, may be stated in general terms as follows: When property is found, in the highway, and the finder knows the .owner, or there be any mark upon it by which the owner may be ascertained, and the finder instead of restoring it converts it to his own…
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