State v. Fruge

Statement.

The opinion of the court was delivered by

Monroe, J.

The defendant in this case appeals from a conviction and sentence of imprisonment at hard labor for “horse stealing,” and brings his case before this court upon a bill of exceptions to the refusal of the trial judge to charge the jury “that, if they were not “ satisfied with the evidence adduced being sufficient to convict under “ the charge of horse stealing, that they, the jury, could find the “ prisoner guilty of ‘ horse riding,’ under Act No. 30 of 1892.”

The information upon which the defendant was prosecuted charges that “he…