State v. . Kent
Supreme Court of North Carolina
The defendant was indicted for larceny, in stealing eight pieces of bacon, and was tried before his Honor, Judge Cloud, at the Spring Term, 1870, of Bo wan Superior Court.
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The defendant was indicted for larceny, in stealing eight pieces of bacon, and was tried before his Honor, Judge Cloud, at the Spring Term, 1870, of Bo wan Superior Court. On the trial, the prosecutrix testified that she had lost eight pieces of bacon, and there was much circumstantial evidence tending to connect the defendant with the theft; and among other things it was proved that the prosecutrix had recovered about fifty pounds of meat which she claimed as hers; that it was not smoked and had a yellow mould on it, but there was no other evidence of the identity of the stolen meat. The…
1Opinion of the CourtBeads, J.
We do not see any force in the defendant’s first exception: “ That the bacon i found ’ was not sufficiently identified as the bacon that was stolen.”
Suppose that was so; or suppose no bacon bad been found at all, still as there was evidence that bacon had been stolen and that the defendant was connected with the theft, the jury were authorized to convict. There was, however, evidence that the bacon found, was the bacon stolen. The prosecutrix testified that her bacon was unsmoked and had a yellow mould on it. The bacon found was unsmoked and had yellow mould on it, and she believed it was…
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