State v. Perkins

*311The opinion of the court was delivered by

Nicholls, C. J.

The defendant was convicted and sentenced under an indictment for larceny, in which the property stolen was described as “ one beef of the cow kind.”

He filed no demurrer nor motion to quash before trial, but reserved his present objection to the indictment to be advanced on a motion in arrest of judgment. Defendant cites a number of authorities to show that a description of so general a character of the thing stolen as that given in the indictment we are considering is insufficient. He particularly relies upon State vs. Hoyer, 40 An.…