Duncan v. State

Appellant was indicted on the 24th. day of September, 1936, upon a charge of grand larceny. It is charged that J. P. Duncan and B. F. McComas, in Benton county, on the 1st day of July, 1936, did unlawfully, wilfully and feloniously steal, take and carry away $500 in gold, silver and paper money, the property of Sam Tolbert. The trial was had on September 28, 1937, and Duncan was convicted upon a trial, separate and apart from his co-defendant, McComas, and his punishment was fixed at three years in the penitentiary. Counsel for appellant says in his brief “We wish to present this appeal’ on…