State v. Shelby

PONDER, Justice.

The defendant was convicted of the crime of simple burglary and sentenced to serve nine years in the Penitentiary. He has appealed from the conviction and sentence.

During the course of the trial three bills of exceptions were taken to the rulings of the trial court. A motion for a new trial and a motion i,n arrest of judgment were filed by counsel for the defendant after the conviction and'before the sentence was imposed.

Bill of exception No. 1 was taken to the overruling of an objection to the following question propounded to one of the State’s witnesses by the district…