Murry v. State
Supreme Court of Arkansas
Appeal from Craighead Circuit Court, Jonesboro District; R. E. L. Johnson, Judge; 1. The offense, if any, became complete in Crittenden County, and the venue of the action was in that county.
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Appeal from Craighead Circuit Court, Jonesboro District; R. E. L. Johnson, Judge; 1. The offense, if any, became complete in Crittenden County, and the venue of the action was in that county. The presumptive rule from the law of sales adopted by the court, that a delivery to the carrier was delivery to the consignee, applies only between a vendor and vendee, and is a presumption which was never intended to apply to a criminal case. 10 C. J. 228, § 317; 63 Md. 179; 141 Ark. 161; 71 Id. 398. Section 2875, C & M. Digest, does not apply. 16 Corpus Juris, 195; 150 Iowa 46; 129 N. W. 336; 13 Mont.…
1Opinion of the CourtWood, J.
The appellant was convicted on an indictment which reads as follows:
“The grand jury of Jonesboro District, Craighead County, in the name and by the authority of the State of Arkansas, accuse H. D. Murry of the crime of removing mortgaged property committed as follows, to-wit: The said * * * in the county, district and State aforesaid, on the 24th day of January, A. D. 1921, did unlawfully, knowingly and feloniously remove from the limits of the State of Arkansas one bale of cotton of the value of sixty dollars, upon which cotton one L. D. Horn had a landlord’s lien to secure the payment of…
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