Blum v. State

The affidavit on which appellant was tried charged that “a person to affiant unknown on the 1st day of November, 1922, at and in the county of Henry and State of Indiana did then and there ■ feloniously take, steal and carry away twenty tires of the personal goods of Don Mowrer, and Phillip Blum did then and there feloniously buy, conceal and aid in the concealment of said property he, the said Phillip Blum then and there well knowing the same to have been feloniously stolen,” etc. A motion in arrest of judgment for the alleged reason that the affidavit did not state a public offense was…