Manners v. State

Robert A. Manners, alias R. R. Duke, alias Kay Norman, was indicted for the offense of burglary. The indictment contained three counts. The jury found him guilty on counts 1 and 2, and acquitted him on count 3. The motion for new trial was overruled, and exceptions were taken to that judgment. Special ground 1 alleges that when a silver pencil, which had been identified by a witness as his stolen pencil and which was found in the defendant’s possession after the burglary, was offered in evidence, the evidence was objected to on the ground that “there is no evidence showing directly that this…