People v. Jones

MarstoNj J.

The respondent pleaded guilty to an information charging him with “ one pair of horses of the value of three hundred dollars of the goods and chattels *593-and property of one Abner Cornell, then and there being found, feloniously did steal, take and drive away, against the form of the statute in such case made and provided,” •-and was thereupon sentenced to imprisonment in the State Prison at Jackson at hard labor for the period of seven years.

The general statute provides that “ every person who shall commit the offense of larceny, by stealing, of the property ■of another, any money,…