Graham v. State

Edmund Graham was convicted of the larceny of a cow described in the indictment as “one blue and white speckled female cow about two and a half years old, with horns, unmarked, of the personal property of T. M. Paulk,” etc. His motion for a new trial was based on the general grounds and on one special *222ground, in which it is insisted that the evidence failed to establish that the offense was committed in the county of Irwin, and therefore the venue of the alleged crime was not shown. The prosecutor testified that on or about September 11, 1914, he lost the cow described in the indictment; that…