Geoates v. State

Griffin Smith, Chief Justice.

From conflicting evidence the jury found that appellant had feloniously taken items of household furnishings belonging to Mrs. Viola Wells. This appeal comes from a prison sentence of a year and a day.

Since testimony qn behalf of the State was substantial, and value of the property was proved, the Court did not err in refusing to set tlie verdict aside on appellant’s protest that the burden had not been met.

It is argued that an instruction (relating to testimony that, recently stolen property had been found in the defendant’s possession) was comment upon the…