People v. Pitcher
Michigan Supreme Court
Error to Lenawee Circuit. The defendant, John Pitcher, was tried and convicted upon an information for receiving and concealing stolen ■property. The fact of the larceny was proved by Arnold P. Graves, from whom the property was stolen. The testimony of David O. Newman, an accomplice, was introduced on the part of the people.
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Error to Lenawee Circuit. The defendant, John Pitcher, was tried and convicted upon an information for receiving and concealing stolen ■property. The fact of the larceny was proved by Arnold P. Graves, from whom the property was stolen. The testimony of David O. Newman, an accomplice, was introduced on the part of the people. This witness testified that he and Samuel Reed stole the property in question, and carried-it in the night time to the house of the defendant, who received and concealed it. The leading points made in the bill of exceptions were upon the rulings of the court touching the…
1Opinion of the Court
Christiancy J.
The charge against the defendant, Pitcher, was for receiving, buying and concealing thirty-five fleeces of wool, the property of one Graves, knowing the same to have been stolen.
On the trial one Newman testified that he, the witness, and Samuel Reed (the defendant not on trial) stole the fleeces of wool from the barn of Graves, on the night of the 4th day of July, put the same into Reed’s wagon, and drove in a circuitous route to the house of the defendant, Pitcher, stopping in the road opposite his house and witness remaining in the wagon; that this was about one or two o’clock…
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