Commonwealth v. Williamson
Court of Appeals of Kentucky
Case 1 —INDICTMENT— APPEAL EROM MARION CIRCUIT COURT. 1. The conversion to his own use by bailee of goods procured with the intent to so convert them is larceny. (Elliott v. Commonwealth, 12 Bush, 176; Miller & Smith v. Commonwealth, 78 Ky., 15; Snapp v. Commonwealth, 82 I£y., 173; Desty’s Amer. Crim. Law, p. 145; Archbold’s Criminal Practice, vol. 1, pp. 365 and 367; Same, vol. 2, pp. 1174, 1201, 1205, 1207-9, and notes; Wharton’s Amer.
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Case 1 —INDICTMENT— APPEAL EROM MARION CIRCUIT COURT. 1. The conversion to his own use by bailee of goods procured with the intent to so convert them is larceny. (Elliott v. Commonwealth, 12 Bush, 176; Miller & Smith v. Commonwealth, 78 Ky., 15; Snapp v. Commonwealth, 82 I£y., 173; Desty’s Amer. Crim. Law, p. 145; Archbold’s Criminal Practice, vol. 1, pp. 365 and 367; Same, vol. 2, pp. 1174, 1201, 1205, 1207-9, and notes; Wharton’s Amer. Criminal Law, vol. 1, pp. 631, 635 and 636; 2 Russell on Crimes, pp. 21, 24; Lewis v. Commonwealth, 15 S. & R., 93.) 2. The court erred in refusing to admit…
1Opinion of the Court
JUDGE HAZELRIGG
delivered the opinion op ti-ie court.
The indictment charges the appellees with the crime-of grand larceny, committed in manner and form as follows, to wit: “The said J. D. Williamson and J. S. Lawrence, in the said county of Marion, on the second day of February, A. D., 1894, and before the finding of the indictment herein, did, unlawfully and feloniously, confederate and conspire, and did feloniously take and steal and carry away from the possession of' Taylor Abell and Josie M. Abell one hundred and fifty pounds of feathers, not their own, or the property of either of them,…
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