Rhoades v. State

Appellant was charged by affidavit in the Vanderburgh Circuit Court with bringing stolen property from the State of Kentucky into Vanderburgh County, Indiana. Omitting caption, signature, verification and approval, the affidavit is as follows:

“Alton Cherry being duly sworn upon his oath says that Orion Arval Rhoades on or about the 26th day of April, A.D. 1947, at said County and State as affiant verily believes did then and there unlawfully and feloniously take, steal and drive away one Model ‘M’ Farmall Tractor, the personal goods of Leo Vogt of the value of Fifteen Hundred Dollars…