Ray v. State

The defendant was charged in the indictment with having stolen a bale of lint cotton, “the marks, brands, and owner being to the grand jurors unknown.” It was shown that he was an employee of a compress company at Albany; his true name was Frank Pay; he caused a negro drayman to take a bale of cotton from the compress yard to a warehouse; it bore a tag in the name of W. M. Moore and was stored in the warehouse under that name; he called at the warehouse and in the name of Moore sold the cotton, taking in payment a check payable to W. M. Moore, which he indorsed in that name and collected at…