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O'Hara knew that that act of larceny had already been perpetrated. And how should it have been otherwise? But of such stealing it is always better that no mention should be made till the theft has been sanctified by free gift. Till the loss has been spoken of and acknowledged, it may in most cases be recovered.
We electrocute the Italian and print pictures of the wheat speculator in our magazines as an example of Success. "In other words, the theft of five thousand dollars is grand larceny. The theft of five millions, stained with human blood, is a triumph of business genius. "But one answer is heard, 'am I my brother's keeper?
As culprits, however, harden in heart with each repetition of crime, until from petty larceny, the initiating offence, they ascend unscrupulously to the perpetration of felony without benefit of clergy; so he, with effrontery only the more deeply burnt in, and conscience the more callous from each conviction, will still lie on, so long as lungs are left, and vulgar listeners can be found in the scum of town populations.
As a matter of fact didn't he testify here to-day that he personally had sent for Mr. Cowperwood in the first place? Why, then, in Heaven's name, this excited charge of larceny, larceny as bailee, embezzlement, embezzlement on a check, etc., etc.? "Once more, gentlemen, listen. I'll tell you why.
He wrote while his left hand held the book flat as orderly as any county-clerk might do in the recordance of a deed of sale. Midcourse in larceny, he looked up from writing. He saw a tall, dark lady who was regarding him half-sorrowfully and half as in the grasp of some occult amusement. He said nothing. He released the telltale book. His eyebrows lifted, banteringly. He rose.
And the two men one of whom was the most intimate friend of the Prince of Wales and the acknowledged darling of London society thereupon fell to discussing plans for surreptitiously entering a man's room and committing larceny, which in normal times would entail, if discovered, a long term of imprisonment, but which, in these days, in Paris, and perpetrated against a member of the National Assembly, would certainly be punished by death.
The business of the court was restricted to such crimes as larceny, and assault and battery, among the heterogeneous mass of camp-followers.
There is the week's summary as well." "Of course I will. Mum! mum! 'Less violence on the whole this week; more petty larceny. That is bad. I'll put it down, Mr. Levi. I am determined to put it down. What an infernal row the cradles make. What is this?
Another crime in which the peculiarities noticed in larceny are still more clearly marked, and at the same time more easily explained, is burglary.
Third, a trial which lasts for a long time naturally results in creating in the jury's mind an exaggerated idea of the prisoner's rights, namely, the presumption of innocence and the benefit of the reasonable doubt. For every time that the jury will hear these phrases once in a petty larceny or forgery case, they will hear them in a lengthy murder trial a hundred times.
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