State v. Henry

the court.

This is an indictment and conviction for larceny in the Criminal Court ta Memphis. The charge is of stealing $865 from the person of John Young, the prosecutor.

Several errors are assigned for reversal in the very ingenious argument of counsel for prisoners, which we proceed to notice.

First, it is insisted that the court erred in admitting the confessions of one of the defendants, Frazier, made to George S. Williams, a constable. The facts, as they appear in the record, are that two witnesses had been previously introduced by the State, detectives in the city of Memphis, who proved…