Theft

An unlawful felonious inking away of another man's movable and personal goods against the wlll of the owner. Jacob. Theft is the fraudulent taking of corporeal ersonal property belonging to another, from is possession, or from the possession of some person holding the same for him, without his consent, with intent to deprive the owner of the value of the same, and to appropriate it to the use or benefit of the person taking.

Quit-zow v. State, 1 Tex. App. 65, 28 Am. Rep. 396; Mullins v. State, 37 Tex. 338; U. S. v. Thomas (D. C.) 69 Fed. 590; People v. Donohue, 84 N. Y. 442.

In Scotch law

The secret and felonious abstraction of the property of another for sake of lucre, without his consent.

Alls. Crim. Law, 250.