Jackson v. State

The indictment in this case charges Ernest Gainor, Eugene Jackson, and James Staley with breaking and entering Silver Moon Café on .September 21, 1930, and taking therefrom certain money and a watch. Gainor and Staley pleaded guilty. Eugene Jackson, plaintiff in error, pleaded not guilty, but was convicted of the offense charged. His exception here is to the judgment overruling his motion for a new trial, which contains the general grounds and one special ground alleging that the trial judge erred in failing to charge without request the law pertaining to proof of the defendant’s good…