Case Name: STATE vs. PETER FRAME and DAVID FRAME, negroes
Court: Delaware Court of General Sessions
Jurisdiction: Delaware
Decision Date: 1845
Citations: 4 Harr. 569
Docket Number: 
Parties: STATE vs. PETER FRAME and DAVID FRAME, negroes.
Judges: 
Reporter: Delaware Reports
Volume: 4
Pages: 569–570

Head Matter:
STATE vs. PETER FRAME and DAVID FRAME, negroes.
Property in several; larceny of, how laid.
Indictment, larceny of forty bushels of Indian corn in the ear; the goods and chattels of David Burton and Burton Hall.
The proof was, that the corn taken belonged to Burton Hall and David Burton, tenants, and to Henry C. Waples, landlord, being part of a crop raised on shares and undivided.
Mr. Cullen
objected that the property should have been laid in Waples also. He cited, 3 Johns. Rep. 215, 220; 8 Ibid 151; 8 Cow. 220; Archb. Pl. 30.

Opinion:
The Court
being of this opinion, the defendants were acquitted.