Legal Opinion
Blakeney v. State
Supreme Court of Alabama
Decided February 25, 1943No. 2 Div. 189PublishedCited by 32 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
BROWN, Justice.
The petitioner here was indicted, tried and convicted in the Circuit Court of Sumter County for grand larceny, the offense denounced by Section 331, Title 14, Code of 1940, Code 1923, § 4905, which makes the stealing of a “cow” or animal of the cow kind grand larceny.
The indictment charged that the defendant “feloniously took and carried away, to-wit, 17 cows or animals of the cow kind, the personal property of William A. Ganguet.”
The offense is complete whether one or more cows or animals of the cow kind are stolen, the number is immaterial, except that at least one such…
2Cases cited13 opinions
- Pharr v. BachelorSupreme Court of Alabama · 1841
- Pollack v. Gunter & GunterSupreme Court of Alabama · 1909
- Molton v. StateSupreme Court of Alabama · 1894
- Beckham v. StateSupreme Court of Alabama · 1893
- Croom v. StateSupreme Court of Alabama · 1881
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3Cited by32 opinions
- Parks v. StateCourt of Criminal Appeals of Alabama · 1971
- House v. StateSupreme Court of Alabama · 1979
- Barber v. StephensonSupreme Court of Alabama · 1953
- INTERNATIONAL UNION, ETC. v. RussellSupreme Court of Alabama · 1956
- Kennedy v. StateAlabama Court of Appeals · 1958
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