Mitchell v. State

Appellant was charged by information with the crime of grand larceny for the stealing of certain scrap iron, tires, etc., of the value of more than $10, the property of Roy Wilkinson, in Saline county. On a trial he was convicted and sentenced to one year in the penitentiary. On this appeal he relies for a reversal upon only one ground assigned in his motion for a new trial, No. 4, as follows: “Because the court erred in allowing the statement given by defendant to the sheriff, at the time of his arrest, to be entered as evidence, over the objections of defendant’s attorney that defendant…