Johnson v. State

Citations

• 47 Miss. 671

Syllabus

<p>1. Criminal procedure — jurisdiction.—Where chattels are stolen in one county and carried into another, an indictment in the latter should charge the larceny to have been committed in that county; otherwise it will be quashed for the want of jurisdiction, the possession by the thief of the stolen goods being a larceny in every county into which he carries them. In this respect the Mississippi statute adopts* the rule of the common law.</p>