Barnes v. State

Barnes, the appellant, was convicted of grand larceny and sentenced to one year in the state penitentiary.

He says the description of the property in the indictment was not legally sufficient. Omitting the formal parts, the indictment charged that: “L. C. Barnes on the 5th day of July 1956 in the County and District aforesaid did wilfully, unlawfully and feloniously take, steal, and carry away ten 110 pound sacks of Dairy Feed of the value of $3.50 each, of the total value of $35.00 the personal property of Glaze Anderson.”

In the following Mississippi cases the descriptions of the property…