Jackson v. State

Appellant was convicted on the charge that he feloniously took, stole and carried away an overcoat of the value of $60 and a suit of clothes of the value of $35, the property of Amos J. Jackson. His motion for a new trial for the alleged reasons that the finding is not sustained by sufficient evidence and is contrary to law was overruled, to which ruling appellant excepted, and has assigned it as error.

There was evidence that appellant’s home was at Dan-ville, Illinois; that after being away from there for two years, he came from Montana, through Chicago, to Indianapolis, arriving on a…