Case ID: blackf_4/html/0457-01.html
Source: Caselaw Access Project
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Date Created: 2024-08-24T03:29:51.129683

Wills v. The State.
    In error.
    
      Saturday, January 13, 1838
   AN indictment charged that the defendant did feloniously stal, take, and carry away, one watch of the value of five dollars, &c. Plea, not guilty. Verdict, “We find the defendant guilty of petit larceny, and that he be imprisoned,” &c. Motion in arrest of judgment overruled, and judgment on the verdict. Held, that the use of the word stal instead of steal, was not a sufficient cause to arrest the judgment; but that the verdict did not authorise the judgment, as the defendant might have been guilty of petit larceny without being guilty of the in the indictment.