State v. Kieffer

Upon an information duly filed, the plaintiff in error was tried and convicted of the crime of grand larceny, and sentenced to the penitentiary for a term of three years. A motion for a new trial was made and denied, and the case comes before us on writ of error to the circuit court of Meade county. The accused, when called upon to plead, *68entered the plea of not guilt/, and also a plea that he had been formerly tried and acquitted upon the same charge. A general verdict was found by the jury of guilty as charged in the information, but there was no verdict of the jury upon the plea of former…