United States v. Strong

27 F. Cas. 1356 | U.S. Circuit Court for the District of District of Columbia | 1821

The Court (Thruston, J., doubting,)

instructed the jury that if they should be satisfied by the evidence that the bolts were delivered to the prisoner for the special purpose of driving them into the vessel, and he afterwards took them away, with intent to steal them, it was larceny.