Sellers v. State

Monroe Sellers was convicted of simple larceny — cow stealing, and excepts to the overruling of his motion for a new trial. The defendant was jointly indicted with one Lewis Taylor, and on the trial Taylor testified, in effect, that lie and the defendant Sellers together committed the crime. The amendment to the motion for a new trial alleges that the court erred in the following charge: “I charge you in this case that the defendant Taylor, having been convicted, is an accomplice as a matter of law." We think this is a direct expression of opinion by the court that the defendant on trial was…