People v. Williams

By the Court, Crockett, J.:

The. defendant having been found guilty of grand larceny, moved to arrest the judgment, on the ground that the indictment does not charge the commission of a felony, and is insufficient. The Court arrested the judgment, and the prosecution has appealed.

The indictment charges that the defendant “did unlawfully and feloniously take, steal, and carry away from the mining claim of the Brush Creek Gold and Silver Mining Company—a corporation duly organized under the laws of the State of California—fifty-two pounds of gold-bearing quartz rock, the personal goods of the…