State v. Mathews

The indictment charges that the defendant feloniously stole certain property in the State of Mississippi, with the intent to bring it into Tennessee, and then brought it, in pursuance of his felonious design, into Shelby County, in this State, and there stole, took, and carried away the same, thereby being guilty of larceny in the county of Shelby and State of Tennessee. Upon motion the indictment was quashed, ITis Honor, the Criminal Judge, being of opinion that the facts charged did not constitute a larceny committed in this State. In Simpson v. State, 4 Hum., 456, Judge Turley said that an…