Jones v. State

The appellant was convicted of grand larceny. The error assigned calls in question the action of the-court in overruling the motion for a new trial.

It is claimed that the first and second instructions were erroneous. They are as follows:

“1. In order to a conviction of the defendant in this case, the State must have proved to your satisfaction, that within two years before the finding of the indictment, and in the county of Hancock and State of Indiana, the defendant did feloniously steal, take, and drive away the hogs, or some one ■ or more of them, as alleged in the indictment, and that…