Mashburn v. State

Willard Mashburn was convicted under an accusation charging him with stealing one and a half gallons of motor oil from M. B. Lane. His exception is to the judgment overruling his motion for a new trial.

M. B. Lane testified: that he had a store in Carroll county, fifty or seventy-five yards from his residence and between a quarter and a third of a mile from the home of his brother-in-law; that at some time between seven and eight o’clock in the night of December 25, 1929, he closed his store and went over to his brother-in-law’s house; that when he and his wife started home he noticed a light…