Smith v. State

HARWOOD, Judge.

This appellant was indicted for and by a jury found guilty of grand larceny. As punishment the court sentenced him to the State penitentiary for a term of eight years.

Abundant evidence was introduced by the State, which if believed by the jury under the required rule tended to show that this appellant stole a sewing machine head, the property of the Houston County Board of Education, from the Rehobeth High School in Houston County, Alabama.

In his motion for a new trial one of the grounds asserted by this appellant was that he was not represented by counsel in the trial below…