Aldridge v. State

Waverly Aldridge and William Aldridge, cousins, indigent and .represented below and here by members of the Shelby County Public Defender’s staff appointed by the court, were convicted in the Criminal Court of Shelby County of grand larceny under a joint indictment charging them with robbing one Roosevelt Payne, and each was sentenced to imprisonment in the penitentiary for not more than five years. Unsuccessful in their motions for a new trial, they have duly perfected an appeal in the nature of a writ of error to this Court.

The defendants’ first three Assignments of Error challenge the…