Duffy v. State

Appellant was charged with the crime of robbery, and, on a trial before a jury was convicted of petit larceny. A motion for a new trial, which assigned as errors the giving of certain instructions, and also that the verdict was contrary to law and the evidence, was overruled. The court adjudged that appellant be imprisoned in the State’s prison for an indeterminate period of not less than one and not more than three years, and that he be fined in the sum of $1, and disfranchised and rendered incapable of holding .any office of trust or profit for a period of one year.

The sole error assigned…