State v. Parsons

Poffenbarger, President:

Convicted of the larceny of an automobile and sentenced to three years imprisonment in the penitentiary, the plaintiff in-error seeks a new trial.

The two principal questions raised in the trial were the identity of the accused, as the man who took the car, affirmed by the testimony of the prosecuting witness, and an alibi asserted by the accused and several other witnesses, in their tes*310timony. While the prosecuting witness was calling on a young lady and his car standing in Twenty-fourth Street of the City of Parkersburg, in front of the house, some persons stopped…