State v. Natcisse

The information against the accused charges him in one count with having entered a railroad car in the nighttime without breaking, with intent to steal, which is made a crime punishable by imprisonment, with or without hard labor, by Act 47, p. 40, of 1890, and in a second count, with having, after having so entered said car, stolen then and there two sacks of flour—

“the said flour at the time being then and there in transit and in the legal custody of the Louisiana Western Railroad Company.”

[1] The following extract from the brief of the learned counsel for accused very succinctly states the…