Case Name: PEOPLE v. MACKINLEY
Court: Supreme Court of California
Jurisdiction: California
Decision Date: 1858
Citations: 9 Cal. 250
Docket Number: 
Parties: PEOPLE v. MACKINLEY.
Judges: 
Reporter: California Reports
Volume: 9
Pages: 250–251

Head Matter:
PEOPLE v. MACKINLEY.
A party cannot be convicted of larceny for taking his own property.
Appeal from the Court of Sessions of the County of San Francisco.
Janes, Lake & Boyd, and Yale, for Appellant.
Thomas H. Williams, Attorney-General, for Respondent.

Opinion:
Burnett, J., delivered the opinion of the Court—Terry, C. J., and Field, J., concurring.
The defendant was indicted for the alleged conversion to his own use, whilst bailee, of a quit-claim-deed made and executed by Thomas J. Alsbury to defendant. The defendant demurred; the demurrer was overruled, and the defendant appealed.
The demurrer should have been sustained. The deed having been "made and executed " as alleged in the indictment, by AIs- bury to Maokinley, was the property of the latter, and could not he stolen by him.
Judgment reversed, and cause remanded.