Martin v. State

The defendant was tried in the district court for Ne-maha county, and by a jury found guilty of the larceny of a watch from the person of one Strawn. The court sentenced him to imprisonment in the penitentiary for a period of five years. He prosecutes error.

His counsel complain of a ruling of the trial court on a motion interposed by the defendant to quash the information. The information, it is argued, is fatally defective, because it does not allege that the property charged to have been stolen was taken with the felonious intent to convert it to the use of the taker without the consent of…