Landrum v. State

The plaintiffs in error, herein-' after called the defendants, were charged with larceny of chickens in the nighttime of the value of $22, were convicted, and sentenced to serve a term of two' years in the penitentiary; from which judgment both defendants have appealed to this court.

The testimony of the state, in substance, is that Mrs. Mattie Anderson was the owner of forty chickens; that on or about the 7th day of March, 1928, twenty-two of her chickens were missing from her premises; that night she kept her chickens in a hen house which was locked; on the 8th day of March, 1928, she missed…