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116 Ala. 437

Bailey v. State

Supreme Court of Alabama

Decided November 15, 1897

Supreme Court of Alabama · decided 1897-11-15

Tried before the Hon. H. C. Speake. The appellant was tried and' convicted under the following indictment: “The grand jury of said county charge that before the finding of this indictment Dink Bailey, alias Charles Bailey, with intent to steal, broke into and entered a store-house of the Parker Coal Com-; pany, a corporation, in which goods, clothing or mérchandise, things of value, were kept for use, sale or deposit, and then and there feloniously took and carried away from…

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Decided 1897-11-15

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BRICKELL, O'. J.

¶11. The objections to the indictment were not well .taken. . An indictment for burglary, with intent to steal, may, in the same count aver the .intent and the actual larceny, without being obnoxious .to an objection for duplicity. The averment of the larceny is not regarded as the averment of a distinct offense, but merely as the averment that the particular burglarious intent was consummated.— Wolf v. State, 49 Ala. 359; Adams v. State, 55 Ala. 143; Gordon v. State, 71 Ala. 315.

¶22. In offenses against property, the indictment must aver the ownership if it be known 7 When the ownership resides in a corporation, it is sufficient to aver or employ the corporation name. It is not necessary, as is supposed by the objection taken, to aver that the corporation is either a foreign or a domestic corporation, nor is it necessary to aver that the corporation had power or capacity to acquire the property, nor to negative that the defendant was a stockholder in the corporation. Rapalje on Larceny, §§. 103-151.

¶33. The bill of .exceptions recites that it contains all *440the evidence given on the trial. We have carefully examined the evidence, and it is silent as to the locality of the offense — that it was committed in the county of Cull-man. The offense, therefore, was not proved as laid, and according to repeated decisions of this court, the court below erred in the refusal of the general affirmative charge to find for the defendant, requested in writing. Brown v. State, 100 Ala. 92; Randolph v. State, Ib. 139; Justice v. State, 99 Ala. 180, and authorities.

¶44. As the cause must be reversed for the error pointed out, it is unnecessary to consider the numerous objections to the admission of evidence ; they may not arise on another trial, or may be differently presented. There was no error in the refusal of the other instructions requested.

¶5Let the judgment be reversed and the cause remanded; the defendant will remain in custody until discharged by due course of law.

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