Leslie v. State

Citations

• 35 Fla. 184

Syllabus

<p>CRIMINAL LAW — CONFESSIONS—PROOF OF VENUE.</p> <p>1. Where a party, while under arrest, of his own molion, calls another party, from whose hotel certain jewelry has recently been stolen, privately to one side, and there voluntarily, and without inducement or threat, proposes to give up the jewelry recently stolen from such party’s hotel, upon condition that he is released, such proposition is such a voluntarily made conf es:sion, as to both the possession of the stolen goods and as to knowledge that such goods had been stolen, as to become pertinently admissible in a subsequent trial of such prisoner for the larceny of such jewelry.</p> <p>2. Where the proof, in a trial for larceny, showed that the property was stolen from “Lynn’s hotel, in the city of St. Augustine,” it is sufficient to establish the venue of the crime as being in St. Johns county, the city of St. Augustine being the county site of that county.</p>