Neely v. State

HARWOOD, Judge.

This appellant stands convicted under an indictment charging him with the larceny of “one iron coal stove from the building of the New Harmony Baptist Church, an unincorporated religious society, in Cullman *316County, Alabama, of the value of $40.00, the personal property of the New Harmony Baptist Church,” etc.

The evidence presented by the State was to the effect that a stove was. taken from the church in question, and was later located by members of the church in a junk yard in Attalla, Alabama, and identified by them as the stove 'formerly in the church.

Employees of the junk…