Bellamy v. State

Taylor, J.:

The plaintiff in error was tried and convicted at the Fall term, 1894, of the Circuit Court of Jackson county, upon an indictment presented at the Spring term, 1893, of said court, of the crime of larceny of a hog, the property of one Edenfield, and was sentenced to imprisonment in the penitentiary for one year; from this judgment he seeks relief by writ of error.

The first and second assignments of error are the giving of the following instructions: “If goods have been taken without the consent of the owner, and shortly afterwards are found in the possession of another, it is prima…