Burns v. State

CHAPMAN, J.:

On July 5, 1941, Carl Burns, James L. Burns and Bobby Burns were by the State Attorney of the Fifth Judicial Circuit in and for Marion County, Florida, informed against for the larceny of a steer, the property of V. L, Hastings and Mrs. W. S. Hastings, in Marion County on June 10,1941. They were arraigned and each entered a plea of not guilty, placed upon trial and each by a jury found guilty as charged. A motion for a new trial was made and by the lower court denied, when Carl Burns and James L. Burns were each sentenced by the trial court to serve two years in the State Prison…