White v. State

At the fall term, 1889, of the Escambia circuit court, the appellant was indicted by the grand jury for the offense of grand larceny. The indictment was pending in the court at the following term, to-wit, the spring term, 1890. At the spring term, 1891, an indictment was found and presented against him for bribery, or offer to bribe, substantially the same as the present indictment, except as to a date. By reason of a variance between the allegations and the proof, in respect of this date, the indictment was quashed at the fall term 1893, and the present one found and presented in its place.…