State v. Adam

Statement of the Case.

MONROE, J.

Defendants were convicted of larceny of a coat, a pocketbook, a sum of money, and certain other effects belonging to Willie Campbell, and they rely in this court upon a single bill of exception, from which, including the statement of the district attorney and the judge, read in connection with that of the clerk, it appears that: “The accused found the goods in the road, then left the road and took a path through the woods. The owner hailing them, they refused to stop, but hurried on in the woods, dividing the money, threw away the pocketbook, and one took the…