Ware v. State

ENGLISH, C. J.:

John Ware and Solomon Bass, Jr., were jointly indicted in the Circuit Court of Mississippi county, for stealing a hog, alleged to be of the value of $10, and the property of James Perry. Ware was separately tried, and the jury found him guilty, as charged in the indictment, and fixed his punishment at imprisonment for one year in the penitentiary. Pie moved for a new trial, on the ground that the verdict was not sustained by the evidence ; the court overruled the motion, and he took a bill of exceptions, which purports to set out all of the evidence introduced on the trial. He…