Beal v. State

Indictment and conviction for larceny. The larceny was committed in Ohio.

On the trial the Court instructed the jury, that where goods are stolen in another State, and soon after, (six weeks in this case,) are brought into this State, the thief may be prosecuted and punished, for the larceny, in this State. This *379instruction goes upon what is claimed, to be the common law doctrine, that a larceny is a continuing act, and is complete in every jurisdiction into which the stolen goods are taken by the thief. See 4 Black. Comm. 303-4. We doubt the existence of this doctrine in Indiana, so far as it…