Hughes v. State

Citations

• 74 Miss. 368

Syllabus

<p>Criminal Law. Larceny. Ownership of property. Insufficiency of affidavit. Motion in a/rrest of judgment.</p> <p>An affidavit charging the larceny of cotton from affiant’s premises, shown to be a farm, is insufficient, if it contains no averment that the cotton was the property of another than the accused; and the defect, being one of substance, may be availed of in arrest of judgment.</p>