Moran v. State

The appellant was convicted in the circuit court of Harrison county on a charge of grand larceny, and was sentenced to serve a term of three years in the state penitentiary; and from this conviction and sentence he prosecutes this appeal.

The indictment charged that the appellant and another took, stole, and carried away “one certain yellow pied yearling, a better description thereof being to the grand jurors unknown, of the value of thirty dollars, in lawful money of the United States, the property of one H. J. Hickman.” To this indictment the appellant demurred on the ground that it failed…