Johnson v. State
Supreme Court of Alabama
Appeal from Macon Circuit Court. Tried before Hon. James E. Cobb. The facts disclosed by the evidence are stated in the opinion. The defendant asked the court, in writing, to charge the jury, among other things, that if'they believed all the evidence, they must acquit him. This charge the court refused to give, and the defendant excepted.
1Opinion of the CourtSomerville, J.
— The defendant ivas convicted of petit larceny in the court below on the following state of facts. The prosecutor had purchased a package of coffee and a piece of meat, valued at about sixty cents, which were, on the counter of a store kept by one Yarner, who was a merchant. The father ■of the prosecutor had employed defendant as a day-laborer on a farm, and owed him the sum of one dollar and sixty cents, for which he had given defendant an order on Yarner, which the latter, as drawee, declined to pay on the ground that he owed the drawer nothing, and that the order was drawn on him without…
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