Pitts v. State
Pitts v. State
Opinion of the Court
delivered the opinion of the court.
The appellant was indicted in the circuit court of Calhoun county at the September term, 1915, for the larceny of “three certain yearlings and one certain cow, a more particular and accurate description 'of which is to the grand jury unknown, then and there the personal property of D. E. Spearman of the value of fifty dollars,” etc. On the trial of the cause the proof on the
Reversed and remanded.
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- 1. Larceny. Sufficency of evidence. A conviction of grand larceny will, be reversed on appeal where the indictment charged the larceny of three yearlings and a cow, described merely by the owner’s name, and where the testimony showed that the cow did not belong to the party as charged in the indictment and the jury might well have found that the yearlings were worth less than twenty-five dollars, there being no direction to the jury to find for the defendant as to the cow and no direction as to finding the value of the yearlings separate from the cow. 2. Same. In such case the defendant could not plead former jeopardy as to the theft of the cows as there was no such description of the cow as could identify her when you take from the description the fact that she was owned by the person alleged to be the owner in the indictment.