Davis v. State

The defendants were indicted at the February term, 1929, of the circuit court on a charge of grand larceny of some seed cotton alleged to have been stqlen in October, 1926. The evidence clearly discloses that the prosecution against these defendants was instigated by Be Gladden on account of the fact that Bertie Davis one of these defendants had given evidence for and on behalf of the state in a- prosecution of Be Gladden in the circuit court of Etowah county in which Be had been convicted on a charge of uxoricide. Tim Gladden, a brother of Be, was one of the principal state’s witnesses in…