Sumeral v. State

CATES, Judge.

Sumeral was indicted for the grand larceny of some rolls of wire fencing, the property of Braxton Dempsey. A jury in the Franklin Circuit Court found him guilty and he appeals.

Viewed from the verdict, the State’s case tended to show (unless otherwise indicated) :

Tuesday evening, June 18, 1957, about five o’clock, Braxton Dempsey had gotten off work and when he reached home he found a crib — part of his barn — had been broken into and six rolls of barb wire fencing and twelve of hog wire were gone. Swaths through the weeds showed how the rolls were transported to the nearby public…