Court Opinion

ID: 4920295
Source: CourtListenerOpinion
Date Created: 2021-09-22 00:16:42.752803+00
Date Added: 2024-06-11T08:14:02.179253
License: Public Domain

Whitfield, J.
Upon an indictment for the larceny of “one bull, one steer, one cow, of the property of Richard Windham, the plaintiff in error was convicted of the “larceny of one bull.” This conviction was reversed because the evidence related to a “cow” or to an “animal” as being the subject of the larceny charged thus showing the verdict to be not supported by the evidence adduced at the trial. Higginbotham v. State, 78 Fla. 114, 82 South. Rep. 601.
On another trial on the same indictment the defendant was found “guilty” and to a judgment of conviction on the verdict took writ of error.
A contention, sought to be presented by plea, that at the former trial the defendant by being found guilty of the larceny of a bull was in law acquitted of the charge of larceny of a cow and of a steer and that the reversal of the conviction of larceny of a bull entitled the defendant to a discharge under the indictment, was manifestly unavailing if it had been so presented as to require consideration of the plea. In the charge the jury were instructed .as to the acquittal on the charge of larceny of a cow and a steer, and their consideration was expressly confined to the charge of the larceny of “one bull.” No special instructions were requested and the charges given were comprehensive and not in any way prejudicial to the defendant.
*308As there is ample evidence to sustain the verdict under the indictment charging larceny of “one bull,” and as no material errors of law or of procedure appear, the judgment is affirmed.
Browne, C. J. and Taylor, Éllis and West, J. J., concur’.