Watson v. State

The plaintiffs in error were tried for grand larceny upon an information charging that they did take, steal and carry away two Ford automobile wheels, two casings, and two inner tubes of the value of $40, the personal property of W. C. Hiner. The jury returned a verdict finding them guilty of petit larceny and assessed their punishment at 30 days in jail and a fine of $65. The verdict was set aside and a new trial granted on the motion of the defendants.

On the second trial they interposed as a plea, in bar of their further prosecution for grand larceny, former acquittal, on the ground that…