State v. Dillon

The opinion of the court was delivered by

Watkins J.

The defendant being convicted of larceny and sentenced to six months’ imprisonment at hard labor prosecutes this appeal.

The information charges Willie Gibson and Willie Dillon jointly with the larceny of a skiff, but the prosecution against the former was abandoned by the State, and urged against the latter, alone.

The defendant filed a motion for new trial on the ground that the State utterly failed to make out against him “ any intent to convert the skiff to his own use; ” and the same having been overruled by the trial judge, he retained a…