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130 Ala. 101

Gibbs v. State

Supreme Court of Alabama

Decided November 15, 1900

Supreme Court of Alabama · decided 1900-11-15

Tried before the Hon. A. D. Sayre. The indictment under which the defendant Bristow Gibbs was tried and convicted originally contained two counts The first count charged the defendant with the larceny from a storehouse of ten pairs of shoes of the value of twenty dollars, the personal property of O. F. Moritz & Co. The second count of the complaint charged the defendant with buying, receiving or concealing or aiding in concealing ten pairs of shoes of the value of twenty…

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Decided 1900-11-15

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DOWDELL, J.

¶1With the consent of the court, the solicitor entered a nolle prosequi as to the first count of the indictment after demurrer for misjoinder interposed and before ruling on tbe demurrer. This was jiermissi-ble and consequently free from error.Lacey v. State, 58 Ala. 385.

¶2There was sufficient evidence from which, the jury might infer the ownership of the shoes stolen to be in the party alleged in the indictment, and, also, a sufficiency of evidence to authorize the inference of guilty knowledge on the part of the defendant.

¶3The affirmative charge requested by the 'defendant Avas properly refused.

¶4The evidence of the Avitness Moritz “that the pair of shoes which had been stolen Avas a pattern of the shoes his firm sold,” Avhen taken in connection Avith other eAddence in the case, was competent and relevant as tending to sIioav ownership of the shoes, and the motion to exclude this testimony aauls properly denied .

¶5We find no error in the record, and the judgment of the city court is affirmed.

¶6Affirmed,.

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