Owens v. State

LEIGH M. CLARK, Supernumerary Circuit Judge.

Appellant was charged with obtaining personal property by false pretense, a crime made punishable as if it were larceny. Code of Alabama 1940, Tit. 14, § 209. The indictment substantially followed the language prescribed by Tit. 15, § 259, Form 60. The value of the property, several items of clothing, was alleged in the indictment and shown by the evidence to have been four-five times twenty-five dollars, the minimum requirement in value for grand larceny, which is punishable by imprisonment in the penitentiary for not less than one nor more than…