Baker v. State
Ohio Supreme Court
Error to the Probate Court of Van Wert county. On information in the Probate Court of Van Wert county {a court having jurisdiction of misdemeanors), the defendant was convicted of the offense of petit larceny. At the trial a bill of exceptions was taken, setting out all the testimony, and this writ is prosecuted to reverse the judgment below, on the ground that the conviction was contrary to the law and the evidence.
1Opinion of the CourtMcIlvaine, J.
The testimony offered on the trial below shows that on the evening of April 28, 1872, the defendant below found on a county public road, at Van Wert county, .a pocket-book containing one ten dollar bill, at a point in the road near which he had been engaged at work during the day, and that the goods found had been lost by the •owner, Hinton Alden, at that point a few hours before. That Alden, at the time he lost the pocket-book, had been detained at that point for a short time and within plain sight of the defendant. On the next morning, Alden, who lived in the immediate neighborhood,…
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