Middleton v. State

Clarence Middleton prosecutes this appeal to reverse a judgment and sentence of conviction against Mm for tlie crime of accessory before the fact to grand larceny.

The first assignment of error is that the court erred in allowing the defendant to he put on trial for the crime for which he was convicted after a jury had been selected to try him for a different offense.

It appears from the .record that the prosecuting attorney first announced that the State would try the defendant on another indictment; but, after the jury was selected, the prosecuting- attorney announced that the State would try…