Mercer v. State

The plaintiff in error, John R. Mercer, defendant below, was charged by information in the district court of Okmulgee county, Okla., with the crime of grand larceny allegedly committed in said county on June 6, 1948. The information charged that he feloniously did take, steal and carry away from the G & H Machine & Supply Company, the owner, 6 joints of 8%" O.D. pipe, 10 joints of 4" pipe, 13 joints of 7" pipe of the value of $877.50, without the knowledge or consent of said owner, and with the intent on his part to appropriate the same to his own use and benefit and permanently deprive the…