Carroll v. State

Defendant was convicted in the Bartlett circuit court of petit larceny, and sentenced to one year’s imprisonment in the penitentiary. A new trial having been refused he appealed in error to this court.

The offense charged was the stealing of a hog, and the principal witness in the case, and the only one as to the facts of larceny, was a young colored girl of about sixteen years of age. Her evidence, if credible, makes a clear case of guilt. But objection is taken to the rulings and declarations of the court pending the cross-examination of this witness, by defendant’s counsel. The bill of…