Spittorff v. State

The appellant was convicted upon an indictment which charged that on a date mentioned, he and another, naming them, “ did feloniously steal, take and haul away fifty pounds of tobacco, of the value of two dollars and seventy cents, the personal property, goods and chattels of,” etc.

It is suggested that the indictment should have been quashed, because it does not pursue the statutory definition of the crime of larceny. Section 1934, R. S. 1881, enacts *172that “Whoever shall feloniously steal, take and carry, lead, or drive away the personal goods of another,” shall be guilty of larceny.…