Commonwealth v. King
Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court
This was an indictment, containing two counts, one for larceny of bank bills, belonging to John S. Fowler, and the other for receiving the bills, knowing them to have been stolen. King, one of the defendants named in it, was tried in the municipal court of the city of Boston, before Perkins, J.; and Albion L. Mellen, the other defendant, pleaded guilty generally.
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This was an indictment, containing two counts, one for larceny of bank bills, belonging to John S. Fowler, and the other for receiving the bills, knowing them to have been stolen. King, one of the defendants named in it, was tried in the municipal court of the city of Boston, before Perkins, J.; and Albion L. Mellen, the other defendant, pleaded guilty generally. There was evidence that Mellen, the other person named in the indictment, was in the employment of Fowler, as his clerk and servant, and was in the habit of receiving money on checks drawn by Fowler, for Fowler, and doing other…
1Opinion of the Court
Dewey. J.
The indictment upon which the defendant was *287tried, charged the offence of the prisoner in two forms; first, as a joint larceny at common law, with one Albion L. Mellen; secondly, in a distinct count, a charge of larceny at common law, by Mellen, and that the defendant received and aided in the concealment of the property thus stolen by Mellen, knowing the same to have been stolen. The jury having acquitted the defendant on the first count, the only questions, therefore, now arise upon the conviction of the defendant upon the second count, as receiver of stolen goods. To authorize…
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