Driggers v. State

On writ of error we review judgment of conviction under an information charging that the accused “on the 4th day of September in the year of our Lord one thousand nine hundred and thirty-seven, in the county and State aforesaid, did unlawfully steal, take and carry away, one animal of the bovine species, to-wit: a calf, of the property of J. H. Daughtry, with the intent then and there to permanently deprive the said owner of the use and pos Session thereof; contrary to the statute in such case made and provided and against the peace and dignity of the State of Florida.”

The records show tha:…