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Date Created: 2024-08-24T03:29:51.129683

Case No. 16,632.
    UNITED STATES v. WALKER.
    [1 Cranch, C. C. 402.] 
    
    Circuit Court, District of Columbia.
    June Term, 1807.
    Larceny.
    Stealing wood, in collusion with the owner’s slave, is larceny.
    Indictment [of Edward Walker] 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, Circuit Judge, 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.