Court Opinion

ID: 4928903
Source: CourtListenerOpinion
Date Created: 2021-09-24 01:04:34.895708+00
Date Added: 2024-06-11T08:14:23.584235
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Tenney, J.,
orally.—For reasons given in the case, State v. Wing, ante, page 581, the exceptions to the rulings at the trial do not come up for consideration. The only question, then, arises upon the motion in arrest of judgment.
It is said the grand jury intended to indict for a compound larceny, under the statute, chap. 156, sect. 2, which provides against the breaking and entering into, and stealing within any building, in which goods, merchandize or any valuable thing is kept for use, sale or deposit; and that, while the proof shows the building to have contained the goods, the indictment is defective in not setting forth that it was a building of that description.
The statute intended to throw around buildings, usually occupied for holding goods, a stronger protection than was deemed necessary for some other classes of buildings. But it does not appear that this building was designed and kept for such a purpose. It might have been a mere shed, into which the articles were placed for a night, to avoid exposure to the weailer.
The indictment therefore does not sufficiently charge a compound larceny. It does however sufficiently charge a simple larceny, and the motion in arrest must be overruled.