State v. Turner
State v. Turner
Opinion of the Court
Curia, per
Both Hearn and Wever proved the trading of defendant with Isom, directly, by selling him the coffee and sugar, as alleged in the second count of the indictment. And that Isom was under their management. They also proved; circumstantially, that Turner received the wheat of Isom and paid him, in part, with
Next, as to the motion in arrest of judgment. The first count may be admitted to be defective and bad, for the reason alleged in the first ground of the motion in arrest. The defendant had the benefit of that admission, by the charge of the judge; and was, of course, convicted under the second or third count — or under both. If one of them be good, it is enough. But both are good. The second alleges Isom to have been under the care and management of John R. Wever; and the alleged trading was, in selling Isom coffee and sugar, without a permit. The third count varies from the second, in this — that Isom was under the care and management of both Hearn, and J. R. Wever ; and that the defendant both sold Isom the coffee and sugar and purchased the wheat at the same time. These acts were not separate tradings, but separate parts of the same trading. This count embodied the whole evidence as given by We-ver and Hearn, and cannot be defective, by stating the whole trading, as consisting in the purchase of one article, and the sale of another. This third count included the second count; and did more, by alleging that Isom was under the care of Hearn, as well as Wever; and that the defendant purchased the wheat as well as sold the coffee and
This motion is, therefore, also dismissed.
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