Crowden v. State

PRICE, Judge.

Appellant was indicted under two counts of (1) larceny of eight cows and (2) buying, receiving or concealing, the said cows. He was convicted under the second count and sentenced to four years in the penitentiary.

Before the trial was commenced a motion was made that the judge recuse himself on the grounds (1) that before the trial began, in an ante-room to the courtroom, when the case was being discussed in the presence of defense counsel and the solicitors for the state, the judge stated: “I’d rather turn the Negroes aloose than the son-of-a bitch who disposes of the god damn…