Griggs v. State
Supreme Court of Alabama
Appeal from tbe City Court of Eufaula. Tried before tbe Hou. Alpheus Bakee. Defendant, Anderson Griggs, was indicted for stealing a sack of coffee, tbe personal property of one Calvin W. Eenn— tbe indictment being framed in the usual way. Trial was bad on tbe plea of “not guilty,” and defendant was convicted and (tbe offense being grand larceny) was sentenced to imprisonment in tbe penitentiary for three years.
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Appeal from tbe City Court of Eufaula. Tried before tbe Hou. Alpheus Bakee. Defendant, Anderson Griggs, was indicted for stealing a sack of coffee, tbe personal property of one Calvin W. Eenn— tbe indictment being framed in the usual way. Trial was bad on tbe plea of “not guilty,” and defendant was convicted and (tbe offense being grand larceny) was sentenced to imprisonment in tbe penitentiary for three years. On tbe trial, the State introduced one Jim James, as a witness, who testified, that some time in tbe fall of 1877, be was carrying some goods, tbe property of said Fenn, on a. wagon,…
1Opinion of the CourtManning, J.
1. Appellant was indicted for tbe larceny of a sack of coffee. It bad dropped from a wagon-load of goods while being hauled from Eufaula to Clayton, about twenty miles distant, along a highway in Barbour county, and was not long afterwards, on the same day, found, between three and four miles from Eufaula, just over a fence by the) highway, and near some bushes, about fifty yards beyond a) gate at which defendant’s ox-wagon was standing, and! through which he had to pass on his way home with his wagon. Some circumstances were proved tending to show ’ defendant had put the sack where it was…
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