Hemmaker v. State
Supreme Court of Missouri
APPEAL FROM ST. LOUIS CRIMINAL COURT. STATEMENT OP THE CASE. This was an indictment found by the grand jury of St. Louis county against the defendant, Peter Hemmaker, charging him with grand larceny in the county of St. Louis On tho trial of said indictment, the State introduced as a witness one John or Frederick Na-house, who testified that himself and defendant were passengers on board the ship Washington, from Bremen to the United States ; and that they landed at New…
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APPEAL FROM ST. LOUIS CRIMINAL COURT. STATEMENT OP THE CASE. This was an indictment found by the grand jury of St. Louis county against the defendant, Peter Hemmaker, charging him with grand larceny in the county of St. Louis On tho trial of said indictment, the State introduced as a witness one John or Frederick Na-house, who testified that himself and defendant were passengers on board the ship Washington, from Bremen to the United States ; and that they landed at New Orleans, in the State of Louisiana, on the first day of January, 1848 ; that there was a large number of passengers on board…
1Opinion of the Court
Judge Napton
delivered the opinion of the court.
The principal question presented by the instruction in this case, involves the power of the legislature to enact the third section of the 9th art. of the act concerning crimes and punishments. That section *455provides iC that every person who shall steal, or obtain by robbery, the property of another, in any other State or country, and shall bring the same into this State, may be convicted and punished for larceny in the same manner as if such property had been felonously stolen or taken within this State, and in any such cases, the larceny may be…
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