State v. Barfield

The opinion of the Court was delivered by

Tonn. J.

The defendants, John Barfield and E. C. Duval, after trial and conviction for horse-stealing, were sentenced to imprisonment at hard labor in tbe penitentiary, the former for one year and the latter for four year's, and have appealed.

No counsel has appeared for them in this Court, but we find in the record several bills of exceptions which disclosed the following facts:

The information was filed more than one year after the offense was alleged to have heen committed, and contained the negative averment that the offense had not been made known to…