Jones and Bass v. State

Mu. Justice Chambliss

delivered the opinion of the Court.

This appeal is from a. conviction of larceny of chickens. We find no preponderance of the evidence against the finding that the chickens were stolen by .Tones and Bass. The credibility of the witnesses was primarily for the jury and trial Court, who accepted the testimony of the State as to the identity of the accused.

The chief insistence here is that, while the indictment averred that Luke Thompson was the owner, and that the chickens were taken from his possession, the proof showed that (1)' the ownership was in his wife and that (2)…