Odger's English Common Law

AGGRAVATED LARCENY. 357
felonies is penal servitude for fourteen years. If, however,
the prosecution fails to prove the special circumstances which
aggravate the offence, the prisoner may be found guilty of
simple larceny. These aggravated larcenies are as follows :—
1
.
Stealing to the value of ten shillings any woollen, linen,
hempen or cotton yarn, or any goods or article of silk,
woollen, linen, cotton, alpaca or mohair, or any one or more of
those materials mixed with each other or with any other
material, whilst laid, placed or exposed in any place dining
the progress of manufacture (s. 9).
2. Stealing in any dwelling-house any chattel, money or
valuable security to the value of £5, or of any value if any
person therein be put in bodily fear by any menaces or threats
used (s. 13). 1
3. Stealing any chattel, money or valuable security from
the person of another (s. 14).
4. Stealing any goods in any vessel, barge or boat in any
haven, port of entry or discharge, or upon any navigable river
or canal, or in any creek or basin belonging to or communi-
cating with any such haven, port, river or canal, or from any
dock, wharf or quay adjacent thereto (s. 15).
5. Stealing any part of any vessel in distress, or wrecked,
stranded or cast on shore, or any goods, merchandise or
articles of any kind belonging to such vessel (s. 15).
6. Larceny by a clerk or servant, or one employed in the
capacity of a clerk or servant, of any chattel, money or
valuable security belonging to or in the possession of his master
or employer (s. 17 (1) ). 2
7. Larceny by any one employed in the public service of
His Majesty or in the police of any chattel, money or valuable
security belonging to or in the possession of His Majesty, or
entrusted to or received into possession by the offender by
virtue of his employment (s. 17 (2) ).
And, lastly, with reference to offences connected with the
Post Office, '*' every person who
(1)
(2)
steals a mail-bag ; or
—
steals from a mail-bag, post office, officer of the Post
1 As to stealing by a tenant or lodger, see s. 16.
2 See indictment, No. 15, in the Appendix.