STATE v. WOODLIN, 2 Del. Cas. 262 (1829)

Stout’s Notes

STATE v. JOHN WOODLIN, free Mulatto.

Court of Quarter Sessions of Delaware.
November, 1829.

2 ganders value .33 each [$]0.66 1 goose value .33 _________ $0.99
fourfold value 4 _________ [$]3.96

Property [of] George Culver.

1. George Culver, sworn. I lost the geese out of my pasture on November 7, 1829. I don’t know they were mine. I did not see them. They were not marked. I lost two ganders and one goose, worth 33¢ each. I live in Little Creek Hundred.

2. John Henry, sworn. Found the geese in a bag hid in a fodder stack, the geese were picked and cleaned. Woodlin was present, denied the bag was his, it was about 200 yards from Woodlin’s house.

3. Winder Kinney, sworn. I saw the bag the geese were in; it belonged to John Woodlin.

1. Joshua Kinney, witness for defendant, sworn. Woodlin has for a few years sustained an ill character.

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2. Samuel Kinney, sworn. Has been lately accused in the neighborhood of some little faults. His general character is not as good as it has been.

4. James C. Lynch, witness for State, sworn. Woodlin’s character for honesty is not good.

Submitted without argument or charge. Verdict, guilty.

Judgment, fourfold value — [$]3.96. Whipped twenty-one lashes. Sold in this state seven years. Pay costs, and committed.