State v. Mills

HAMITER, Justice.

Jack Mills and George Cooper, the defendants herein, were tried jointly under an indictment charging that they committed a theft of 20 steel rails of the value of $112. The jury returned a verdict of guilty as charged, and the court sentenced each to a term of 12 months at hard labor in the state penitentiary. Both appealed, and they rely on five bills of exceptions for a reversal of the conviction and sentence.

Under their first bill appellants complain of the court’s permitting a state witness, James Edwards, to testify as to the license number of the truck owned by…