State v. Young

ODOM, Justice.

Defendants were indicted and tried in the Parish of Winn for the crime of cow-stealing. They were convicted and sentenced to hard labor. From the conviction and sentence they prosecute this appeal.

There is but one bill of exception found in the record. That bill was reserved to the ruling of the trial judge overruling a motion to quash on the ground that the crime was prescribed.

The indictment was 'returned in the Parish of Winn- on September 1-1, 1939, and alleged that the crime was committed on July 18, 1938, more than .12 months prior to the filing of the indictment. The…