Coppage v. State

Fonzo Coppage was convicted of larceny from the house of money exceeding $50 in value, and the jury, in the verdict, recommended that he be punished as for a misdemeanor. One witness swore directly that he saw Coppage take the money *697in question from the desk in the pool-room of Baswell, the prosecutor. Other circumstances appeared from the testimony which would lead to the conclusion that one Evans was in some way interested in the theft, either as accessory before or after the fact. But the attempt to impeach the witness who swore that he saw the plaintiff in error take the money was not…