Boyd v. State

Snodgrass, Ch. J.

The plaintiff in error was indicted for housebreaking and larceny. He pleaded *506“not guilty,” was tried, convicted, and sentenced to imprisonment in the penitentiary for a term of three years, and thereupon appealed in error.

There was evidence upon which the conviction might have been rested, though it is not very conclusive. The material error assigned is in the exclusion of the testimony of Belton Boyd, witness of defendant. Boyd gave evidence to the effect that defendant found certain of the property lost, at the time that charged to have been stolen was taken. .Turned over…