Crankshaw's criminal code of Canada

This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1910 Excerpt: ...coats. In the prosecutrix's absence Donovan carried off the coats into Middlesex, and County afterwards joined him there, and concurred in securing them. The indictment was laid against the prisoners, in Middlesex, and, upon a case reserved, it was held that, as County was present aiding and abetting in Surrey at the original larceny, his concurrence afterwards in Middlesex, though after an interval, might be connected wilh the original taking, and brought down, as larceny, to the subsequent possession in Middlesex; and the conviction was maintained. (10) Where two jointly committed a theft in one county, and one of them carried the stolen goods into another county, the other still accompanying him, without their ever being separated, they were held both indictable in either county: the possession of one being the possession of both, In each of the counties, as long as they continued in company. (1) The taking into the other county or jurisdiction must be animo furandi. For instance, a constable apprehended a prisoner with two stolen horses at Croyden. in Surrey. On being so arrested, the prisoner said he had been at Dorking to fetch the horses and that they belonged to his brother, who lived at Bromley. The police constable offered to go with him to Bromley; and they rode together as far as Beckenham Church, when the prisoner said he had left a parcel nt the Black Horse, in some place in Kent. The constable, accordingly, went then' with him. each riding one of the horses. When they got there, the constable gave the horses to the ostler. The prisoner did not enquire for any parcel, but made his escape, and was. afterwards, again apprehended in Surrey, and indicted in Kent for stealing the two horses. Upon a case reserved, it was held that there was no evide...