Edwards v. State

Appellant was indicted for grand larceny of a taxicab, convicted, and appealed.

Complaint is made here of the refusal of certain instructions, and that the verdict of the jury was against the overwhelming weight of the evidence, in that the State failed to establish sufficiently that appellant was sober when it is charged he formed the intent to steal the car.

As to the first assignment of error, it is urged that appellant should have been given three refused charges.' Two of them were to the effect that if the jury believed from the evidence that when appellant entered the taxicab he had no…