Crawford v. State

Arch Crawford, plaintiff in error, herein designated the defendant, was by verdict of a jury found guilty of the larceny of an automobile, with his punishment assessed by the jury at confinement in the state reformatory at Granite for a period of five years.

Four assignments of error are urged in this appeal: (1) That the evidence is insufficient to support the verdict; (2) that there was a fatal variance between the allegations and the proof; (3) error in the court’s instructions to the jury; (4) that the judgment does not conform to the verdict.

The evidence for the state discloses that the…