Morgan v. State

The defendant in the court below was indicted for the theft of money from the house of Richard Peterson; said money being then and there the property of said Richard Peterson, and in the possession of James W. Warwick. On the trial the defendant filed a plea in bar of the suit, and set up the fact that he had previously, at the same term of the court, been tried for the same offense and acquitted. The plea has the judgment of the court attached, but fails to, set out the indictment or a statement of the facts in the former suit, and for this cause, and from the statement of facts- in the case…