State v. Miller

The defendant was indicted, tried and convicted of the crime of larceny of a gasoline engine and pnmp jack alleged to be the personal property of Lonis M. Marriott and sentenced to be confined in the penitentiary of this state for a period of two years. From this judgment he appealed.

The facts disclosed by the evidence are that some time prior to the date of the alleged larceny, Louis M. Marriott, the prosecutor, owned a certain tract of land upon which there was a deep well and, used in connection with the well and attached thereto, was a pump, a pump jack and pipes leading into the well for…