Supreme Court of Alabama November 15, 1899 (Pierce v. State)

McCLELLAN, C. J.

— It having been made to appear that the defendant took the ginnery receipt for the bale of cotton alleged to have been stolen by him in the name of Mary Smith instead of taking it in the name of Abercrombie, the owner, as he had been directed to take it, it was entirely competent for the State to show to the jury that Mary Smith was in fact the wife of the defendant, *68and this