Wells v. State

Joe B. Wells and James Howard were indicted for the offense of larceny from the house by stealing “seven and one half bushels of soy beans, of the value of $14.58, being the goods and chattels of . . Will Mathews, in the barn and storehouse of Will Mathews. . . ” Joe B. Wells was tried separately and convicted. His exception is to§ the judgment overruling his motion for new trial.

The gist of W. E. Layton’s testimony was that he lived on W. C. Mathew’s farm; that Mathew’s barn was broken into on January 29, 1935, and about eight or ten bushels of beans, which some people called soy beans and…