Wilson v. State

PRENDERGAST, Presiding Judge.

The appellant was indicted for the offense of theft from the person, convicted and her punishment fixed at the lowest prescribed by law.

The indictment charges that she thus stole from Henry Thelen “corporeal personal property then and there belonging to the said Henry Thelen, to wit: one purse containing money and checks.” The appellant, by motion in arrest of judgment, claimed that said description of the stolen property was insufficient, and that there was no allegation of the value of the stolen property. These questions have so many times been fully discussed…