Stewart v. State
Tennessee Supreme Court
FROM GIBSON. At the March Term, 1870, the prisoner was convicted of larceny. He moved to be discharged on account of his absence when the jury returned their verdict, which motion was overruled, and he has appealed to this Court. Judge John A. Rodgers, presiding.
1Opinion of the CourtAndrew McLain, J.
The defendant in this case, was indicted for larceny.
The record contains no charge of the Court, and none of the evidence.
It appears that the defendant was arraigned, and plead not guilty, and was tried and convicted; and his term of imprisonment in the penitentiary fixed by the jury at two years; and judgment was pronounced by the Court accordingly.
There is nothing irregular appearing in that part of the record that evidences these facts.
But there is a bill of exceptions in the transcript, from which it appears that the defendant, after the jury had returned their verdict, appeared in court…
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