Donalson v. State

SIMPSON, Justice.

John Donalson was convicted by the jury of buying, receiving, concealing or aiding in concealing personal property and from the judgment rendered appealed to the Court of Appeals. On a review there that court reversed the judgment of the lower ■court for the refusal to him of the general affirmative charge because of the insufficiency of the evidence to sustain the indictment and rendered a judgment discharging him, conceiving it to be the mandatory duty of that court to enter such judgment under such a status; one judge, however, dissenting, entertaining the view that the…