Case Name: UNITED STATES v. ROBERTSON
Court: United States Circuit Court of the District of Columbia
Jurisdiction: United States
Decision Date: 1836-11
Citations: 27 F. Cas. 825
Docket Number: 
Parties: UNITED STATES v. ROBERTSON.
Judges: 
Reporter: Federal Cases
Volume: 27
Pages: 825–825

Head Matter:
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.

Opinion:
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.