Powers v. State

Appellants were indicted, tried, and convicted in the circuit court of Madison county of the crime of grand larceny and sentenced to the state penitentiary for a term of four years. From that judgment they prosecute this appeal.

The only issue of fact in the case was as to the identity of the persons who. committed the crime.

On the night of March 30,1932, at about eleven o’clock, two white men entered the home of Ed Harris, a negro living in Canton, and stole from him, in the presence of himself and his wife, five hundred dollars in money, a diamond stickpin of the value of one hundred…