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112 Miss. 248

Smith v. State

Mississippi Supreme Court

Decided October 15, 1916

Mississippi Supreme Court · decided 1916-10-15

HoN. E. L. BejaN, Judge. , Alex Smith was convicted of grand larceny and appeals. Tbe facts are sufficiently stated in tbe opinion of tbe court. There was a fatal variance between the allegation of ownership laid in the indictment and the evidence adduced on the trial.

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Decided 1916-10-15

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Pee Curiam.

¶1ON SUGGESTION OE ERROR.

¶2Appellant was indicted and convicted of stealing a cow, alleged in the indictment to have been the property of Ethel, Matthew, John, and Perry Tonng. The evidence discloses that the cow, when stolen, was the property of “old man” Perry Tonng, who died after it was stolen and before the finding of the indictment, leaving as his heirs at law his children, the persons alleged in the indictment to be the owners of the cow. No objection was made to this variance between the proof and the indictment, bnt two instructions were granted appellant charging the jury that ownership must be proven as laid in the indictment. If appellant desired to avail himself of this variance he should have objected specifically on that ground, so that the attention of the court and opposing counsel might be called thereto, and, having failed so to do, he cannot now ■avail himself thereof, for the reason, that had such an objection been made, the indictment could have been amended to correspond with the proof. Section 1508, Mississippi Code 1906; Foster v. State, 52 Miss. 695.

¶3Affirmed.

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