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Newman Vs. Bradley

Court : US Supreme Court

..... against the party who makes it, though rejected in those points which operate in his favor. upon an indictment of larceny, for instance, if the defendant says he had the stolen goods in his possession, but alledges that he bought them, the jury will give credit to the former, but disregard the latter part of his confession. the improbability of the circumstance ..... man with what he acknowledges against himself, and yet refuse to credit him for what he advances in his own favor. as, if he should admit, that he purchased the goods; which the plaintiff alledges were sold to him, but insists that he paid for them at a particular time and place, in the presence of certain persons; and those persons .....

United States Vs. Murphy

Court : US Supreme Court

..... a deep interest, and looking to the ordinary means by which the ends can be accomplished, it is difficult not to perceive that if the owner of the stolen goods be incompetent, it will be found utterly impracticable, in most cases falling within the purview of the section, to procure any conviction, however frequent or however flagrant ..... to have been forged is not a competent witness in england. but a different course has generally, although perhaps not universally, prevailed in america. so the owner of stolen goods has been universally admitted as a competent witness, in america, at least, to prove the identity of his property and the fact of the theft, if not ..... massachusetts. in the case of salisbury v. state of connecticut, 6 conn. 101, the judges of the supreme court of that state held that the owner of goods stolen was a competent witness for all the matters in issue upon an indictment for the theft, although the statute declared that the thief, upon being convicted, should forfeit .....

Reg. Vs. Maruti Dada and ors.

Court : Mumbai

Reported in : (1877)ILR1Bom15

..... appeared that the prisoner was an accessory before the fact to the stealing by h, and that he afterwards received the stolen goods. the jury returned a general verdict of guilty against the prisoner, which was entered upon all the counts: held, that the prisoner was not entitled to an acquittal upon the ..... of that case runs thus: 'an indictment in the first two counts charged the prisoner and h jointly with stealing. a third count charged the prisoner alone with receiving the stolen goods. at the trial no evidence was offered against h, and he was acquitted, in order that he might be called as a witness against the prisoner. by the evidence it .....

Reg Vs. Hanmant Gavda

Court : Mumbai

Reported in : (1877)ILR1Bom228

..... and 8 of the act for fraudulently offering adulterated cotton for sale or for compression. the possession of stolen goods soon after the theft justifies a presumption that the person in possession is either the thief or has received the goods, knowing them to be stolen (section 114, evidence act), if the same analogy be applied to the possession of adulterated cotton, the legal ..... under which such receipt would be punishable. in the present instance it is just as likely that the prisoner bought dirty cotton from the cultivators, intending to sell it as good cotton, as that he adulterated it himself; but, if that were so, there is nothing in the law which would make him liable to punishment, until he offered it for .....

The Empress Vs. Sunker Gope

Court : Kolkata

Reported in : (1881)ILR6Cal307

..... goods were stolen or in any district in which any of them were at any time dishonestly received or retained.' now the theft having occurred beyond ..... code, is legal, and that we should not interfere. shunker gope confessed to having stolen cattle in the kingdom of nepal, and he was found in possession of them in british territory. section 66 of the criminal procedure code, illustration (b), lays down that' a charge of receiving or retaining stolen goods may be inquired into and tried, either in the district in which the .....

In Re: Kristo Lall Nag

Court : Kolkata

Reported in : (1884)ILR10Cal256

..... , conduct in using copies, which had been improperly obtained.15. the officiating magistrate, we observe, goes further. he compares the conduct of the pleader with that of a receiver of stolen goods.16. we consider that this view of the case is entirely erroneous; and that it is based on misconception not only of the duties of an advocate, but of the ..... other persons who were present at the time when the depositions were taken, or the confessions made, had been a sufficiently good scribe to take down in writing what either the prisoners or the witnesses said, or had a sufficiently good memory to have correctly related what took place to the pleader, it is clear that the latter would have been perfectly .....

Ex Parte Crow Dog

Court : US Supreme Court

..... as to crimes committed in places within their exclusive jurisdiction, viz., manslaughter, 5341; attempt to commit murder or manslaughter, 5342; rape, 5345; mayhem, 5348; bigamy, 5352; larceny, 5356, and receiving stolen goods, 5357. that this legislation could constitutionally be extended to embrace indians in the indian country, by the mere force of a treaty, whenever it operates of itself, without the aid .....

Ex Parte Wilson

Court : US Supreme Court

..... death; most other offenses were punished by fine and imprisonment; whipping was part of the punishment of stealing or falsifying records, fraudulently acknowledging bail, larceny of goods, or receiving stolen goods; disqualification to hold office was part of the punishment of bribery, and those convicted of perjury or subornation of perjury, besides being fined and imprisoned, ..... allowed for capital crimes, nor for any felony, by which was understood any offense which at common law occasioned a total forfeiture of the offender's lands or goods, or both. 4 bl.com. 94, 95, 310. the question whether the prosecution must be by indictment, or might be by information, thus depended upon ..... prosecuted consistently with the constitution and laws of the united states. in the record of a general conviction and sentence upon two counts, one of which is good, a misrecital of the verdict as upon the other count only, in stating the inquiry whether the convict had aught to say why sentence should not .....

Boyd Vs. United States

Court : US Supreme Court

..... who must see that they answer the description." "if it should be said that the same law which has, with so much circumspection, guarded the case of stolen goods from mischief would likewise, in this case, protect the subject by adding proper checks would require proofs beforehand, would call up the servant to stand by and overlook, ..... in evidence for the purpose of convicting him of a crime, recovering a penalty, or of forfeiting his property is totally different from the search and seizure of stolen goods, dutiable articles on which the duties have not been paid, and the like, which rightfully belong to the custody of the law. constitutional provision for the ..... is manifest that there is a total unlikeness of these official acts and proceedings to that which is now under consideration. in the case of stolen goods, the owner from whom they were stolen is entitled to their possession, and in the case of excisable or dutiable articles, the government has an interest in them for the payment .....

New York Mut. Life Ins. Co. Vs. Armstrong

Court : US Supreme Court

..... has uttered, other counterfeit money is held to be proper evidence to show his guilty knowledge, and upon an indictment for receiving stolen goods, evidence that the prisoner had received at various other times different parcels of goods which had been stolen from the same persons is held admissible in proof of his guilty knowledge. so, on an indictment for a conspiracy to create ..... his motive, and it may be considered as governing him in each insurance. in castle v. bullard, 23 how. 173, where the defendants were charged with having fraudulently sold the goods of the plaintiff, evidence that they had committed similar page 117 u. s. 599 fraudulent acts at or about the same time was allowed with a view to establish their .....