Case Name: STATE v. FIELDS
Court: Louisiana Supreme Court
Jurisdiction: Louisiana
Decision Date: 1906-11-26
Citations: 117 La. 929
Docket Number: No. 16,207
Parties: STATE v. FIELDS.
Judges: 
Reporter: Louisiana Reports
Volume: 117
Pages: 929–929

Head Matter:
(42 South. 428.)
No. 16,207.
STATE v. FIELDS.
(Nov. 26, 1906.)
Ceiminal Law — Auteeeois Acquit.
A defendant, acquitted of stealing a mule, cannot be prosecuted on the same facts for the embezzlement of the mule.
[Ed. Note. — For cases in point, see Cent. Dig. vol. 14, Criminal Law, § 396.]
(Syllabus by the Court.)
Appeal frdm First Judicial District Court, Parish of Caddo; Thomas Fletcher Bell, Judge.
Mose Fields, alias Charley Lee, was convicted of embezzlement, ’ and appeals.
Reversed, and defendant discharged.
Cal Dial Hicks, for appellant. Walter Guión, Atty. Gen., and James Martin Foster, Dist. Atty. (Lewis Guión, of counsel), for the State.

Opinion:
PROVOSTX, J.
Defendant was convicted of the embezzlement of a mule, and was sentenced to five years at hard labor, and he appeals. He is not represented by counsel in this court.
He pleaded autrefois acquit; he having been prosecuted before, and acquitted, on an indictment for mule stealing based on the same transaction.
The plea should have been sustained. It is precisely the case provided for by sections 1055 and 1056, Rev. St., where it is said that a conviction for embezzlement may be had on an indictment for larceny, and vice versa, and that if, on the trial for any crime, it appears that the facts given in evidence amount in law to some other offense, the defendant shall not be prosecuted for such other offense on the same facts, unless the judge upon such trial shall discharge the jury from giving a verdict.
Judgment set aside, and defendant ordered discharged.