Berbette v. State
Mississippi Supreme Court
Appeal from the circuit court of Hinds county. Hon. J. A. Teat, Special Judge. M. Berbette was convicted of larceny and appeals. The facts are fully stated in the opinion of the court. I want to call the attention of the court to a ruling of the lower court by which an employee of the Jackson Light & Traction Company, over the objection of the appellant, by challenge for cause, was permitted by the court to sit on the jury that tried this cause.
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Appeal from the circuit court of Hinds county. Hon. J. A. Teat, Special Judge. M. Berbette was convicted of larceny and appeals. The facts are fully stated in the opinion of the court. I want to call the attention of the court to a ruling of the lower court by which an employee of the Jackson Light & Traction Company, over the objection of the appellant, by challenge for cause, was permitted by the court to sit on the jury that tried this cause. A man by the name of McBride, an employee of said company, was on the panel and tendered by the state to the defendant, and it being shown that he…
1Opinion of the CourtReed, J.
' Appellant was tried and convicted on an indictment charging him .with taking, stealing, and carrying away electricity of the value of one dollar, the property of the Jackson Light & Traction Company, a corporation.
The evidence shows that the taking and carrying away of the property in this case was by the means of a device known in the electrical business as a “jumper.” These are said to be two pieces of wire, connected with the feed wires conveying the current into the meter on the receiving or supply side, and again connected with such wires on the other or transmitting side of the *98meter,…
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