Davis v. State

Lee Davis was convicted of receiving stolen car brasses, knowing them to be stolen, of the property of the East Tenn., Va. & Ga. Railway Co. The conviction was on the second count of the indictment; the first count charged him with the larceny of the brasses. Iiis motion for a new trial was overruled. Among the grounds of the motion it was alleged that the court erred in charging the jury thus: “The State offers in evidence the stove in which it claims the metal was melted away from these brasses; offered also testimony as to jack-screw used for the purpose of obtaining the brasses from the…