Case ID: wheel-cr-cas_1/html/0139-01.html
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Date Created: 2024-08-24T03:29:51.129683

The People vs. Hester Pierpont.
    0n a ebarge stolen °good| £the7 is no »ompeDistrict* Attomey prove that the house of the prisoner was the resort of felons, who came there to dispose of stolen goods.
    
      
      Receiving stolen goods, knowing they were stolen.
    
    Hester Pierpont was charged with receiving stolen goods, knowing they were stolen.
    
      Maxwell, District Attorney,
    
    after proving the sale part of the goods mentioned in the indictment, to her by William Anderson, who it appeared was the thief who stole them, offered to show that the house of the defendant was the resort of felons, who came there to dispose of their ^OOty.
    
      D. Graham, counsel for the prisoner,
    objected.
   The Court

overruled the evidence ; and the prisoner acquitted,