State v. Mansfield
State v. Mansfield
Opinion of the Court
In indictments for the theft of cattle, sheep, goats, or hogs, it is needless to do more in describing the animal alleged to be stolen than to designate the owner’s pame, or the
Reversed and remanded.
Reference
- Full Case Name
- State v. F. Mansfield
- Cited By
- 1 case
- Status
- Published
- Syllabus
- 1. Indictment for theft of a hog, held, sufficiently certain when it charged the accused with fraudulently taking a certain hog of a designated value, of the property of a named person, from his possession, without Jris consent, with'intent to deprive him of the value of it, and to appropriate the hog to the use of the taker.