Hall v. State
Tennessee Supreme Court
FROM KNOX. The plaintiff in error was convicted at the October Term, 1866, for stealing Ocoee Bant notes, and sentenced to three years’ imprisonment. Defendant appealed. Judge E. T. Hall, presiding. ■
1Opinion of the CourtMilligan, J.
The prisoner was indicted and convicted in the Circuit Court of Knox County, upon a charge of *126stealing sundry Ocoee Bank notes, of different denominations. He was sentenced to the penitentiary for three years.
A new trial was asked, and refused by the Court; and an appeal, in error, prosecuted to this Court.
The indictment is for simple larceny, in the common law form. The proof shows, in substance, that the prisoner, in the Spring of 1864, applied to the prosecutor for the loan of money, which, at first she declined, but after being told by the prisoner that he knew where he could purchase…
2Cited by3 opinions
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- Jonathan Davis v. Jim Morrow, WardenCourt of Criminal Appeals of Tennessee · 2010