Metzer v. State

The appellant was indicted of larceny for stealing a coat of the alleged value of ten dollars, and on plea of not guilty was tried by a jury, and found guilty; was denied a new trial, and sentenced to pay a fine of five dollars and be imprisoned in the state prison for two years. Pie appeals, and has assigned for error the overruling of his motion for a new trial. On the trial, one Henry Hill testified, on behalf of the State, that on Wednesday after the *597coat was said to have been stolen, he met the defendant east of Richmond about one and a half miles, on the national road, and recognized…