Shepperd v. State
Supreme Court of Alabama
Prom the Circuit Court of Bibb. Tried before the Hon. Jas. R. Dowdell. The defendant in this case was indicted for the larceny, from a railroad car, of five hundred packages of garden-seed,, the personal property of E. N. Cottingham & Co., a mercantile partnership doing business at Blocton, in said county of Bibb.
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Prom the Circuit Court of Bibb. Tried before the Hon. Jas. R. Dowdell. The defendant in this case was indicted for the larceny, from a railroad car, of five hundred packages of garden-seed,, the personal property of E. N. Cottingham & Co., a mercantile partnership doing business at Blocton, in said county of Bibb. The evidence adduced on the trial showed, without contradiction, that Landreth, of Philadelphia, had forwarded to said Cottingham & Co., by railroad, a consignment of goods containing, with other things, five hundred packages of garden-seeds; that the invoice, or bill of lading, was…
1Opinion of the CourtMcCLELLAN, J.
— The evidence tended to show "that certain packages of seed, about five hundred in number, were-consigned at Philadelphia by Landreth to E. N. Cotlingham & Co., at Blocton, Ala.; that the car containing these packages arrived at Blocton, and was broken into before being unloaded; that the packages were missing, and packages corresponding-in number and description were subsequently found in the possession of the defendant. Yery clearly, we think, the jury were authorized to find upon this evidence that the defendant .had stolen the seeds as charged in the indictment, and the general charge…
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