Caraway v. State

The first count of the indictment on which the defendant was convicted is as follows:

“The grand jury of said county charge that before the finding of this indictment Barney Stephens, Henry Caraway, and John Caraway feloniously took and carried away from the smokehouse of A. Q. Spurlin two hams, of the value of, to wit, two dollars and fifty cents each, and three middlings of meat, of the value of, to wit, seven dollars and- fifty cents, the personal property of A. Q. Spurlin.”

The evidence for the state tended to prove that the smokehouse was used for storing meat, and that the defendant was…