Culley v. State

The charge is grand larceny. The affidavit was filed June 13, 1921, charging the defendant with the stealing of fifty chickens, committed on or about June 11, 1921. The chickens were alleged to be of the value of $40 and the property of one Emil N'oelle.

No question is raised on the sufficiency of the affidavit. A plea of not guilty was entered and the case was tried by jury, and the jury returned a verdict as follows: “We, the jury, find the defendant guilty of petit larceny as charged in the affidavit and that he is thirty years of . age.”

The only error assigned is the overruling of…