Able v. Commonwealth
Court of Appeals of Kentucky
CASE 82 — INDICTMENT APPEAL FROM JEFFERSON CIRCUIT COURT. CITED— Revised Statutes, sec. 10, chap. 28. 4 Blackstonc, chap. 3. 12 Alabama, 460; Hughes vs. The Stale. 2Wharton’s Amor. Grim. Law, sec. 1811. 1 Wharton’s Arner. Grim. Law, secs. 112 to 134. 2 Dev. ó,- B.’s N. G. Rep., 412; State vs. Hardin. 1 Bishop on Grim. Prac., pp'. 546 to 551. 1 Hale’s Pleas of the Grown, pp. 611 to 618, 623 to 626, and 537. 1 Bishop’s .Grim. Law, pp. 475-6. 3 Gilmore, 368, 381, 382. 5 Gal.
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CASE 82 — INDICTMENT APPEAL FROM JEFFERSON CIRCUIT COURT. CITED— Revised Statutes, sec. 10, chap. 28. 4 Blackstonc, chap. 3. 12 Alabama, 460; Hughes vs. The Stale. 2Wharton’s Amor. Grim. Law, sec. 1811. 1 Wharton’s Arner. Grim. Law, secs. 112 to 134. 2 Dev. ó,- B.’s N. G. Rep., 412; State vs. Hardin. 1 Bishop on Grim. Prac., pp'. 546 to 551. 1 Hale’s Pleas of the Grown, pp. 611 to 618, 623 to 626, and 537. 1 Bishop’s .Grim. Law, pp. 475-6. 3 Gilmore, 368, 381, 382. 5 Gal. Rep., 133; People vs. Davidson. 1 Green. Ill; Russell vs. United Slates. 5 Mich., 71, 86, 88; Shannon vs. People. 29…
1Opinion of the CourtChief Justice Williams
Appellant was indicted, tried and convicted, in the Jefferson circuit court, of stealing and carrying away two thousand six hundred dollars of gold coin, the property of James W. Gibson.
The evidence established that Able lived at Cairo,' a small village in Henderson county, in this State, and that Gibson resided about two and a half miles from it, and had residing with him his grandson, about fifteen years of age; that Able approached the boy one day in Cairo and inquired whether his grandfather had not some gold. Being answered in the affirmative, he then inquired if he, the boy, could get…
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