Conn v. State

The appellant, Robert Conn, was jointly indicted, along with Hobson P. Jones and Carl Matthews, at the November 1952 Term of the Circuit Court of Hinds County, on a charge of grand larceny in the taking, stealing and carrying away of $300 in money, being the property of L. C. Lipscomb. A severance was granted to each of the defendants, and the appellant was tried at the September 1955 Term of the Court, and was convicted and sentenced to serve a term of two years in the state penitentiary. From that judgment he prosecutes this appeal.

The testimony of the State’s witnesses made out a case of…