Grace v. State

1. No error appears in the first special ground of the motion for a new trial. Although the statement itself might have been objectionable as mere hearsay, the error in admitting it as evidence was subsequently cured when the witness on whose veracity and competency the State depended testified to the same fact.

2. Where the crime charged against the defendant is larceny of an automobile, which when found had been burned, it is permissible for the State to prove or show anything found in the car that tends to connect the defendant with the crime; and although the evidence complained of in the…