Case ID: dc_5/html/0038-01.html
Source: Caselaw Access Project
Author: {"author": "", "license": "Public Domain", "url": "https://static.case.law/"}
Date Created: 2024-08-24T03:29:51.129683

United States v. John Robertson.
    It is not larceny in A to receive goods under a false pretence that the owner had sent him for them, although A appropriated them to his own use.
   The defendant went to B, who had sold a parcel of cigars to C, and pretended that C had sent for a box of them; upon which B delivered a box to the defendant, who sold it, and gave a false account of the manner in which he had obtained it.

The Court, (nem. con.) was of opinion that it was not larceny. See Chitty, 907 ; 2 Russell, 118 and Roscoe, 493.