Snowden v. State
Mississippi Supreme Court
Appeal from the Circuit Court of Madison County. Hon. T. J. 'Whaeton, Judge. The appellant was tried and convicted on a charge of larceny. The substance of the evidence adduced at the trial is stated in the opinion of the court.
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Appeal from the Circuit Court of Madison County. Hon. T. J. 'Whaeton, Judge. The appellant was tried and convicted on a charge of larceny. The substance of the evidence adduced at the trial is stated in the opinion of the court. For the State the court gave the following instruction, and the defendant excepted : “ 4. Possession of recently stolen goods is presumptive evidence of guilt of larceny of the goods, and if the jury believe from the evidence in the cause, beyond all reasonable doubt, that the meat or any part of it charged in the indictment to have been stolen was at any time soon…
1Opinion of the CourtChalmers, J.
W. E. Ross lost from his plantation in Madison County, on the night of the last day of January, 1884, four pieces of bacon and a shotgun, amounting in value to more than twenty-five dollars. The property was all taken from the smoke-house of the prosecutor, and the tracks of two persons were seen around it, but no other discoveries were made at the time. Nearly six weeks afterward two whole pieces and one half piece of meat were, by Ross, discovered in the residence of one Houseworth, who, Ross ascertained, had bought them from defendant, Snowden. Mainly upon this proof Snowden was tried and…
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