Jefferson v. State
Supreme Court of Alabama
Appkal from the City Court of Montgomery. Tried before tlie Hon. Wijjjam S. ThoeiNGTON. The appellant was indicted, tried and convicted for buying, receiving, concealing or aiding in concealing a cow, the property of M. Shehane, knowing that it wa3 stolen, and not having the intent to restore it to the owner.
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Appkal from the City Court of Montgomery. Tried before tlie Hon. Wijjjam S. ThoeiNGTON. The appellant was indicted, tried and convicted for buying, receiving, concealing or aiding in concealing a cow, the property of M. Shehane, knowing that it wa3 stolen, and not having the intent to restore it to the owner. It was proved by the State that in the early spring of 1894, one M. Shehane had a cow stolen from him in the county of Montgomery, State of Alabama, and that the place from which the cow was stolen was near said city. That in the spring of 1895 the cow was sold by defendant to one Jeff…
1Opinion of the CourtHead, J.
There was evidence corroborative of the testimony of McGaskill tending to connect the defendant with the commission of the offense charged. The objection to McGaskilPs testimony was, therefore, properly overruled, and the second charge requested by defendant properly refused.. The statement of the Solicitor to which exception was taken, if not within the bounds of permissible argument, with the explanation the court gave the jury in reference to it, could have done the defendant no injury.
The first charge requested by' the defendant calls the attention of the jury to the facts favorable to…
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