Evans v. State

Appellant was indicted and convicted in the circuit court of the Second district of Jones county of the crime of grand larceny, and sentenced to the penitentiary for a term of five years. From that judgment he prosecutes this appeal.

The indictment, as returned into court by the grand jury and filed by the clerk, was in the following form:

“The State of Mississippi. Second District, Jones County. “Circuit Court, November, 1924, Term.

‘‘The grand jurors of the state of Mississippi, elected, summoned, impaneled, sworn, and charged to inquire in and for the Second judicial district of Jones county,…