Powell v. State

PRICE, Judge.

Under an indictment charging robbery, grand larceny and receiving and concealing stolen property, the defendant was convicted of grand larceny and sentenced to seven years in the penitentiary.

On the trial the defendant filed pleas of former jeopardy and autrefois acquit as a bar to a second trial.

In support of his pleas he introduced testimony showing that on a former trial of said case the court gave the general affirmative charge for the defendant as to the grand larceny and receiving stolen property counts, the case being submitted to the jury on the robbery count, and a…