Watkins v. State

The plaintiff in error, hereinafter referred to as the defendant, was indicted and convicted in the Circuit Court of Leon County of the larceny of a cow, and thereafter adjudged to be guilty, and was thereupon sentenced in accordance with the statute (Section 7234 C. G. L., 5133 R. G. S.) to serve two years in State Prison. The case is now before this Court on writ of error to the judgment of conviction.

The evidence disclosed that defendant admitted that he had assisted Mr. J. D. Crowder, a white man who had been jointly indicted with defendant (a negro) for stealing, butchering and disposing…