State v. Wingo

This is an appeal by the State upon questions of law reserved at the trial.

The appellee was charged in the indictment with the larceny of two mules from David Pugh. There was a trial by jury and a verdict of acquittal. The evidence is in the record, and shows, without conflict, the following facts:

In the spring of 1881 the appellee was in the employment of David Pugh, as a farm hand, and in hauling corn to market for Pugh, to Terre Haute; on the day of the alleged larceny, in March, 1881, Pugh sent him to that city with the two mules *205and a wagon loaded with corn, directing him to sell the…