State v. Given

The opinion of the Court was delivered by

Poché, J.

M. M. Given was prosecuted under an information by the District Attorney on a charge of horse-stealing, and after trial, was con*783•victed and sentenced to imprisonment at hard labor for one year in the State Penitentiary. After an ineffectual attempt for a new trial, and an unsuccessful motion in arrest of judgment, he has appealed to this Court, seeks to avoid verdict of the jury, and to reverse sentence and judgment of the lower court, on the following grounds :

First. That the information is defective, because in the sentence which should…