Dowdy v. Commonwealth

This is a writ of error to a judgment of the Circuit court of Cumberland, rendered in April last, convicting the prisoner William H. Dowdy of grand larceny, and sentencing him to imprisonment in the penitentiary for one year. The indictment contains ten counts, in each of which the subject of the larceny is stated to be "eleven hundred and forty pounds of tobacco, of the value of one hundred dollars, ” but each of which is different from the others in some incidental circumstance. The first is a common count for larceny, stating the owner of the property to be a person to the jurors unknown.…