State v. Jones

Defendant was tried on a bill of indictment containing two counts. In the first count he was charged with unlawfully marking three certain hogs, belonging to T. B. Deen, and in the second count he was charged with unlawfully altering and defacing the marks on three certain hogs belonging to Deen. He was convicted on the first count and acquitted on the second count. Therefore the second count passes out of the case.

The first step taken by defendant in his defense was to ask for a bill of particulars. In this motion he asked, as relates to the first count, that the state be required to furnish…