McHenry v. State

Devine, Associate Justice.

The defendant, McHenry, was indicted at the March term, 1873, of the District Court of Houston county, on a charge of theft of a dun heifer, the property of Alfred Lewis. He was tried at the July term and convicted. The jury rendered a verdict guilty of a misdemeanor, and assessed the penalty at five dollars. A motion for a new trial was refused, and an appeal taken.

Of the exceptions taken and motion to quash the indictment, it is only necessary to. state that the indictment charged the defendant, in plain and intelligible *47language, with being guilty of an offense…