People v. Pierpont — 1 Wheel. Cr. Cas. 139

Majority

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The People vs. Hester Pierpont.

Headnote

0n a ebarge stolen °good| £the7 is no »ompe

Receiving stolen goods, knowing they were stolen.

Hester Pierpont was charged with receiving stolen goods, knowing they were stolen.

Maxwell, District Attorney,

after proving the sale part of the goods mentioned in the indictment, to her by

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District* Attomey prove that the house of the prisoner was the resort of felons, who came there to dispose of stolen goods.

William Anderson, who it appeared was the thief who stole them, offered to show that the house of the defendant was the resort of felons, who came there to dispose of their ^OOty.

D. Graham, counsel for the prisoner,

objected.

overruled the evidence ; and the prisoner acquitted,