State v. Wainwright

The defendant was indicted in the circuit court of . Maury county for stealing a ham. On motion the trial judge quashed the indictment, and the State appealed *545to' this court and has assigned error. The question made on the indictment was that it did not contain an averment of value. The' language on that subjtect was: “That Mary Wainwright heretofore on the-day of October, 1912, in the said county, feloniously did steal, take, and carry away from the possession of one R. P. Pigg one ham of the value of 200, the personal property of the said R. P. Pigg, against the peace and dignity of the…