Weese v. State

1. The defendant was charged with the larceny of an automobile, and convicted of that offense. He complains in two grounds of his motion for a new trial of the admission of evidence showing that the car, when found in the possession of the defendant after the theft, had on it a different license tag from the one attached to the car at the time it was stolen. The objection to the evidence, made at the time of its admission, was that the defendant was not charged with the theft of an automobile tag, and that the tag was not a part of the automobile. The evidence was admissible as a circumstance…