Curington v. State

Plaintiff in error, referred to herein as defendant, was indicted, tried and convicted upon a charge of the larceny of hogs of the value' of more than twenty dollars. After judgment imposing sentence upon him he took writ of error from this court.

The basis of the first contention of defendant is rulings of the trial court holding inadmissible- evidence of a witness for defendant to the effect that defendant’s son, Letha Curington, had- engaged the witness testifying to search the woods for his hogs, which, it was claimed, had disappeared. This evidence was objected to upon the ground that it…