State v. Evans

Upon an information duly filed, the plaintiff in error was tried and convicted of the crime of grand larceny, .and sentenced to imprisonment in the state penitentiary for the term of one year. A motion for a new trial was made and denied, and the plaintiff in error has brought the case to this court for review on a writ of error issued out of this court.

Before proceeding to discuss the merits of the case, it will be necessary t.o dispose of certain objections made to the abstract on the part of the attorney general. He takes the position that, as the abstract does not show affirmatively that…