Weeks v. State

Carl Weeks was jointly indicted with Howard Darnell for the larceny of a described automobile, the property of N. H. Bailey; the indictment alleging that, “prior to committing the above charged crime,” Weeks and Darnell had been convicted of designated felonies and sentenced to confinement and labor in the penitentiary for each of those crimes. On October 10, 1940, Darnell was tried on the above indictment and acquitted; and on March 10, 1941, a jury convicted Weeks of the offense charged and fixed his sentence at five years. Weeks’s amended motion for new trial was overruled and he excepted…