Seals v. State

BROWN, Justice.

The appellant, in the Court of Appeals, was indicted by a grand jury impaneled in the Circuit Court of Colbert County for the offense of grand larceny, denounced by § 4905 of the Code. This statute makes the stealing of "any horse, mare, gelding, colt, filly, mule, jack, jennet, cow, or animal of the cow kind,’’ grand larceny, without regard to the number stolen or the value thereof. (Italics supplied.)

The indictment described the property as “28 head of cattle of the value of ($1400.00), Fourteen Hundred Dollars, the personal property of E. D. Fennell and Leonard Pruitt.”

The…