Hamilton v. State

The appellant was indicted in the court below for grand larceny, and, upon a plea of not guilty, was tried by the court and found guilty, and sent to the penitentiary.

Opinion filed at the May term, 1877. Rep.

Motions for a new trial and in arrest of judgment overruled., and exceptions.

The first error assigned is upon the ruling of the court, in overruling the motion for a new trial.

The indictment charged the appellant with the larceny of “seventy-five dollars of the lawful money of the United States,” the property of Isaiah Ilullinger, and it was alleged that a more particular description of…