Freeman v. State

Appellant was tried and convicted under an indictment charging the offense of grand larceny by stealing, taking and carrying away “five hundred pounds of cotton of the value of $100, the property of H. A. Meadows.”

There was a demurrer to the indictment on the ground that the property alleged to have been stolen was not sufficiently described, in that it was not stated whether the property was seed cotton or lint cotton.

Counsel for appellant rely mainly on the decision of this court in Houston v. State, 66 Ark. 120, where it was held that under an indictment charging the theft of seed-cotton…