The taking of the property is essential and means to get it into one's possession;6 but this does not mean actual manual custody of the property, nor is it necessary that one should accomplish the act with his own hand. The taking of the property may be by the hand of another.

There must be a carrying away or asportation of the goods as well as the taking to make out the offense of larceny.7 But a slight removal of the goods from the place where they were taken is sufficient asportation. For example if one puts his hand in the pocket of another and takes a pocket book into his hand and draws it part of the way out of the pocket and then lets go of it, this is sufficient to constitute the "carrying away" of the property taken.8

5 Hughes Cr. Law, Sec. 397, 398. 6 State vs. Friend, 47 Minn., 449;

State vs. Shonhausen, 26 La., 423.

7 People vs. Murphy, 47 Cal., 103; State vs. Alexander, 74 N. C, 232; Edmonds vs. State, 70 Ala., 8.