Case ID: dc_1/html/0402-01.html
Source: Caselaw Access Project
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Date Created: 2024-08-24T03:29:51.129683

United States v. Edward Walker.
    Stealing wood, in collusion with, the owner’s slave, is larceny.
    Indictment for stealing- wood. The evidence was that the wood was delivered to the prisoner (or rather suffered to be taken) by the owner’s servant, a slave.
   The Court

(Duckett, J., absent,)

directed the jury that if they should be satisfied that there was a collusion.between the servant and the prisoner, with intent to commit a theft, the fact of the delivery does not alter the case, but it is still a felony.