Perkins v. State

Appellant wafi convicted under an indictment charging him with the crime of grand larceny, and he seeks by this appeal only to question the sufficiency of the indictment under which he wa,s tried. The indictment alleges that he stole “two animals of the cattle kind, the property of 'Cratus Sterlin. ’ ’ The property alleged to have been stolen was not otherwise described, and it is earnestly insisted that this description is insufficient, for the reason that, if defendant were again tried for the larceny of these animals under a more particular and sufficiently definite description he could…