State v. McMinn

At the February term, 1879, of the circuit court of Yell county, Danville district, McMinn and others were indicted for larceny, the indictment charging, in substance, that, “the said Robert McMinn, C. T. Rains and Robert Wilson, on the 28th day of July, 1878,in the Dan-ville district, of the county of Yell, etc., one bull of the value of four dollars, of the property of M. Y. Adney, then and there being found, did unlawfully and feloniously steal, take and carry away,” etc., etc.

McMinn filed a plea of former acquittal, in substance as follows:

“ Defendant, etc., having heard said indictment…