90 Miss. 516
Decided March 15, 1907
Mississippi Supreme Court · decided 1907-03-15
From the circuit court of Lauderdale county. TIon. Robert F. Cochran, Judge. Mrs. Wells, the appellant, was indicted and tried on a charge of receiving stolen property, was convicted, fined $100 and sentenced to the county jail for ninety days. From the conviction and sentence she appealed to the supreme court.
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Decided 1907-03-15
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¶1delivered the opinion of the court.
¶2The demurrer to the indictment should have been sustained. It is esséntial, in an indictment for receiving stolen property, to describe the property with the same particularity as is required in an indictment for larceny. See 2 Bishop, New Crim. Proc., secs. 982, 983; Ib. see. 699 et seq.
¶3The judgment is reversed, the demurrer to the indictment sustained, the indictment quashed, and the prisoner will be held to await a proper indictment.