Williams v. State

Plaintiff in error was tried and convicted in the Criminal Court of Record of Duval County on an information charging him with receiving and buying stolen property. He was sentenced to five years in the state penitentiary, to which judgment this writ of error was taken.

It is contended here that the evidence is insufficient to support the conviction, that the motion for new trial on the ground of newly discovered evidence was erroneously denied, and that the alleged stolen property was improperly admitted in evidence.

Section 5138 Revised General Statutes of 1920 (Section 7239 Compiled General…