Madden v. State

The appellant was convicted of grand larceny on an indictment charging him with grand larceny, burglary, and receiving stolen goods, the jury fixing his punishment at $5.00 fine and three years in the penitentiary.

The trial court overruled his motion for a new trial, which ruling is called in question by his assignment of errors. The motion, among other things, assigned as reasons therefor that the court, over appellant’s objection, permitted the- State to prove that some months prior appellant had been arrested in St. Joseph county on another charge of grand larceny, and the court, after a…