Bright v. State

The only question raised by the bill of exceptions is the sufficiency of the indictment, under which the defendant was tried and convicted, as against the special demurrer filed thereto. The material portions of the indictment are as follows: “On the *1819th day of October in the year of our Lord one thousand nine hundred and ten, in the county aforesaid, of the personal goods of W. T. Lockett then and there being found, to wit, 100 pounds of seed cotton, of the value of $10.” "The defendant demurred, on the ground that the property alleged to have been stolen was not described with sufficient…