State v. Benjamin

The opinion of the court was delivered by

Monroe, J.

The defendant having been convicted of larceny and sentenced to imprisonment at hard labor, presents his case to this court upon a bill of exceptions to the refusal of the judge a quo to grant him a new trial. The bill relied on sets forth that the mover was convicted on circumstantial evidence, consisting of the fact that a pocket-book, *502containing two credit slips with 'his name on them, was found in the room from which the articles alleged to have been stolen were taken, and that, since the trial, he has discovered evidence, of the…