Mississippi Supreme Court, 1919

Smith v. State

Smith v. State
Mississippi Supreme Court · Decided October 15, 1919 · Smith
121 Miss. 37; 83 So. 337

Smith v. State

Opinion of the Court

Smith, C. J.,

delivered the opinion of the court. The appellant was convicted for a violation of section 1054, Code of 1906 (section 782, Hemingway’s Code); hut the indictment on which he was tried is fatally defective, for the reason that it fails to charge that the mark altered by him was “ intended to designate ownership.” Consequently the demurrer thereto should have been sustained.

Reversed and remanded.

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