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Case No. 16,174.
    UNITED STATES v. ROBERTSON.
    [5 Cranch, C. C. 38.] 
    
    Circuit Court, District of Columbia.
    Nov. Term, 1836.
    Larceny—False Pretences.
    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 [John Robertson] 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 Chit. Cr. Law, 907: 2 Russ. Crimes, 118; and Rose. Cr. Ev. 493.