Musgrove v. State

The defendant was accused of the offense of larceny from the house, and upon his trial was convicted. It appears that he had quite a number of notes and mortgages, which he was ■endeavoring to collect, and that he had made a contract with the prosecutor, Mr. Cotton, who was a bailiff, to collect them for him upon ten per cent, commission. It further appears, that though some of the papers had been collected, Mr. Musgrove, the defendant, had remonstrated with the prosecutor for his lack of diligence as to the others and threatened to rule him for failing to make collections. They were first…