Wallace v. People

At the May term, 1871, of the Perry county circuit court, the plaintiff in error was indicted for the crime of larceny. The indictment contains but a single count, in which it is charged that the property alleged to have been stolen was the property of the “American Merchants’ Union Express Company.”

A motion was entered to quash the indictment, which motion the circuit court overruled. A trial was subsequently had, and the plaintiff in error was found guilty, and thereupon he entered a motion in arrest of judgment, which was also overruled.

The rulings of the court on these motions are now…