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Davis et al. v. State

Supreme Court of Florida, Division A
May 27, 1929
122 So. 579 (Fla. 1929)

Opinion

Opinion filed May 27, 1929.

A Writ of Error to the Circuit Court for Holmes County; D. J. Jones, Judge.

W. T. Bludworth, for Plaintiffs in Error;

Fred H. Davis, Attorney General, and H. E. Carter, Assistant, for the State.


Plaintiffs in error were convicted of the larceny of a cow. The contention made in their behalf is that there was no evidence of "taking and carrying away." There was, however, sufficient evidence to show that the cow was butchered at the place where she was shot, and the operations necessary to prepare the beef for market almost completed, when the plaintiffs in error were discovered and ran away. The judgment of conviction is affirmed on authority of Driggers v. State, 118 So. R. 20.

TERRELL, C. J., AND ELLIS AND BROWN, J. J., concur.


Summaries of

Davis et al. v. State

Supreme Court of Florida, Division A
May 27, 1929
122 So. 579 (Fla. 1929)
Case details for

Davis et al. v. State

Case Details

Full title:COLEMAN DAVIS, TED TRUITT and R. V. HELMS, Plaintiffs in Error, v. STATE…

Court:Supreme Court of Florida, Division A

Date published: May 27, 1929

Citations

122 So. 579 (Fla. 1929)
122 So. 579

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