Parker v. State
Supreme Court of Alabama
Appeal from the County Court of Bibb. Tried before the Hon. N. H. Thompson. The appellant was tried and convicted under a complaint which charged that he “feloniously took and carried away a plow stock, the personal property of Henry Parker of the value of one dollar.”
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Appeal from the County Court of Bibb. Tried before the Hon. N. H. Thompson. The appellant was tried and convicted under a complaint which charged that he “feloniously took and carried away a plow stock, the personal property of Henry Parker of the value of one dollar.” The evidence for the State, as is shown by the bill of exceptions, tended to show that during the year 1895, while the defendant was a laborer on the plantation of Henry Parker, he carried away from said plantation a plow stock, which the defendant used in making a crop on Henry Parker's lands that year. The defendant asked the…
1Per curiam
The defendant was charged with the larceny of a pidw-stock. There are certain designated subject matters, the felonious taking and carrying away of which, is by statute declared to be larceny without regard to value, such as a horse, hog, a part of an outstanding crop, &c. When the statute does not declare the articles to be the subject of larceny without reference to value, it is necessary to aver and prove, to authorize a conviction, that it was property and of value, probably with the single exception of money. — Lucas v. The State, 96 Ala. 51. The courts take judicial knowledge that money…
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- Gady v. StateSupreme Court of Alabama · 1887
- Lucas v. StateSupreme Court of Alabama · 1892
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