Jefferson v. State
Supreme Court of Alabama
From tbe City Court of Montgomery.- Tried before tbe Hon. Thos. M. Arrington. Tbe defendant was indicted for larceny of money from- a ,store-bouse. Tbe building in wbicb tbe larceny was committed'was at the time occupied and used by the firm of Chandler & Jones in carrying on a real estate and insurance business, and by the Standard Building and Loan Association and also by a lumber broker.
Read the full summary
From tbe City Court of Montgomery.- Tried before tbe Hon. Thos. M. Arrington. Tbe defendant was indicted for larceny of money from- a ,store-bouse. Tbe building in wbicb tbe larceny was committed'was at the time occupied and used by the firm of Chandler & Jones in carrying on a real estate and insurance business, and by the Standard Building and Loan Association and also by a lumber broker. No goods, wares, merchandise or grain ivere kept in the building for use, sale or deposit, but the building was constructed for a stoi’e-house. The defendant moved to exclude from the consideration of the…
1Opinion of the CourtStone, C. J.
Defendant was indicted under section 3789 of the Code of 1886. The indictment has two counts, each charging larceny of money from a store-house.
Store-house is “ a house in which things . are stored; a building for the storing of grain, food-stuffs, or goods of any kind, a magazine, a repository, a warehouse, a store.” Century Dictionary, Webster’s Dictionary, Worcester’s Dictionary. This is, in substance, the definition given to the word store-house in State v. Sandy, 3 Ire. law, 570, and in Ray v. Com., 12 Bush., 397. Johnson v. State, 19 Ala., 527, is not opposed to this view.
The house or…
2Cases cited1 opinion
- Johnson v. StateSupreme Court of Alabama · 1851
3Cited by7 opinions
- Gaskin v. StateAlabama Court of Appeals · 1964
- Gaskin v. StateAlabama Court of Appeals · 1964
- Matthews v. StateAlabama Court of Appeals · 1917
- Christopher Eugene Wilson v. Commonwealth of VirginiaCourt of Appeals of Virginia · 2016
- Caraway v. StateAlabama Court of Appeals · 1922
2 more not listed; retrieve them via the Exa API.