Coggins v. State

Appellant was convicted of grand larceny. The property was stolen in Oak Park, Illinois, and brought by appellant into Clay County, Mississippi, where he was arrested, tried and convicted. Sections 2431 and 2240, Code of 1942. The former section provides that where property is stolen in another State or country and brought into this State, or is stolen in one county in this State and carried into another, the offender may be indicted and tried in any county into or through which the property may have passed, or where the same may be found.

The prosecutrix, owner of the property alleged to have…