Byrd v. State

CARR, Presiding Judge.

The accused was convicted on a charge of larceny of a cow, the personal property of Ray Jackson.

The only questions which merit any comment by us are the actions of the court in refusing the general affirmative charge tendered by the defendant and the refusal to grant the motion for a new trial.

Our review of the sufficiency of the evidence is also invited by defendant’s motion to exclude all of the State’s evidence. Hendricks v. State, 34 Ala.App. 502, 41 So.2d 420; Brooks v. State, 34 Ala.App. 275, 38 So.2d 744.

The State anchored the prosecution on circumstantial…