McCarty v. State
Washington Supreme Court
Appeal from Superior Court, Pierce County. Proceeding by information on the charge of grand larceny for the stealing of ninety-three railroad passenger tickets of the aggregate value of $120, of the chattels and property of the Northern Pacific Railroad Company. A trial was had before a jury, and a verdict returned finding defendant guilty as charged. From the judgment and sentence rendered defendant appeals to this court.
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Appeal from Superior Court, Pierce County. Proceeding by information on the charge of grand larceny for the stealing of ninety-three railroad passenger tickets of the aggregate value of $120, of the chattels and property of the Northern Pacific Railroad Company. A trial was had before a jury, and a verdict returned finding defendant guilty as charged. From the judgment and sentence rendered defendant appeals to this court. These railroad tickets not having been delivered or stamped, or sold, were not of any value as railroad tickets, and consequently not a subject of larceny. As the…
1Opinion of the Court
The opinion of the court was delivered by
DüNBAR, J.
This is a proceeding by information, on a charge of grand larceny for the stealing of ninety-three alleged railroad passenger tickets. The information alleged that “ the said J. C. McCarty, on the fifteenth day of October, eighteen hundred and eighty-nine (1889), at the county of Pierce and State of Washington, and within three years prior to the filing of this information, ninety-three railroad passenger tickets of the aggregate value of one hundred and twenty dollars, of the chattels and property of the Northern Pacific Bailroad Company, a…
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