Holden v. State

Sol Holden prosecutes this appeal to reverse a judgment of conviction against him for grand larceny, charged to have been committed by stealing 1,200 lbs. of seed cotton of the value of $100, the property of E. E. Eice.

The first assignment of error is that the verdict is not legally supported by the evidence.

On the part of the State it Avas shown that the cotton in question was grown on the farm of R. R. Rice, in Lincoln County, Arkansas, by a negro called Cool Shorty. Shorty was to pay one-fourth of the cotton raised by him as rent. He was also indebted to Rice for supplies, and it was their…