Skelton v. State

On affidavit and information by the prosecuting attorney, the appellant was found guilty of petit larceny, and sentenced to the Indiana Reformatory. The property alleged to have been stolen consisted of “forty-six turkeys, then and there the personal property of Delila Todd;” and it is assigned and argued as error that the court overruled a motion in arrest of judgment, for the reason that the affidavit and information fail to state that the turkeys were domestic, and in the possession of Delila Todd or some other person. The argument is that the turkeys might be wild ones, and therefore not…