Ingram v. State

BRICKEN, Presiding Judge.

It appears from the record, that this appellant was tried jointly with one W. S. Brewer, upon an indictment against each of them, wherein they were charged with the offenses of petit larceny, embezzlement, and extortion. Each offense as charged was a misdemeanor.

The indictment upon which appellant was tried was unusual in that a misdemeanor only was charged, as stated, yet it contained 29 separate counts, and, as transcribed in the record, consumed more than eight pages of the transcript. While, as-stated, such an indictment in a charge of one misdemeanor is unusual,…