Russell v. State

The defendant, J. R. Russell, was tried and convicted upon the first count of an indictment charging him with 'being accessory before the fact to the crime of killing a sheep, with the felonious intent to steal the same, and that the offense was committed by him in Benton County. The indictment contained three counts, in all of which the allegations were the same, except as to the ownership of the property alleged to have been stolen. In the first count it was alleged that the property was owned by one whose name to the grand jury was unknown. In the other counts of the indictment the names…