Stradford v. State

¶ 1. This is an appeal from a conviction of grand larceny in the Circuit Court of Newton County, Mississippi, Honorable Marcus D. Gordon presiding. The defendant, James A. Stradford, Jr., was found guilty by a jury of his peers and was sentenced to five years in the custody of the Mississippi Department of Corrections.

¶ 2. Following a denial of his post-trial motions, Stradford filed this appeal citing two critical errors on the part of the lower court. First, Stradford claims that because the indictment fails to correctly identify the victim of the crime of larceny, it was "fatally…