Rogers v. State

The indictment in this case charges that the accused did “buy and receive from Wilburn Woods and Lawson Fowler 250 lbs. of ordinary short-staple cotton, picked and in sacks, of the value of seven cents per pound, the personal goods and private property of Ií. B. Allen and T. J. Allen, said cotton having been falsely, fraudulently, and feloniously taken and carried away by Wilburn Woods and Lawson Fowler from a'certain cotton-house of said H. B. Allen, with the intent to steal the same, the said J. H. Rogers then and there knowing said cotton had been stolen and feloniously taken as aforesaid,…