Flannigan v. State

Plaintiffs in error, hereinafter referred to as defendants, were jointly charged, tried, and convicted of the crime of larceny of domestic fowls. The jury having failed to agree upon the punishment, the court sentenced each of the defendants to serve a term of six months’ imprisonment in the state penitentiary.

The evidence of the state was that on the night of April 27, 1932, one Owen McDow had fourteen chickens stolen from his farm; that the loss of the chickens was discovered the next morning, and an examination revealed the tracks of three men that led from the chicken house to the road,…