Stokes v. State

Cockrell,

The indictment charging J. K. Stokes with altering the existing marks and brands of a hog, the property of W. W. Sanders, is alleged to be defective in failing to describe the marks and brands so altered.

In Mizell v. State, 38 Ela. 20, 20 South. Rep. 769, we held it unnecessary in an indictment for the larceny of a cow, to describe the marks and brands, and we see no reason for a more specific description in this class of cases. We decided in Shiver v. State, 41 Fla. 630. 27 South. Rep. 36, that the indictment need not allege the owner of the mark alleged to have altered, and in the…