Slinkard v. State

The appellant was tried and convicted in the Benton circuit court of the offense, of receiving-stolen property and his punishment -fixed at imprisonment in the penitentiary for a period of one year. From the judgment of conviction he prosecutes this appeal and contends, first, that the trial court erred in overruling his demurrer to the indictment which he had duly interposed in apt time. Omitting* the caption, the indictment is as follows:

“The Grand Jury of Benton county, in the name and by the authority of the state of Arkansas accuse L. A. Slinkard of the crime of receiving stolen property…