State v. Duncan

The appellant, a negro twenty-eight years old at the time of the trial, and designated in the information by the name of Major Duncan, was charged with burglary. Specifically the State’s evidence was that he broke into a barber shop at Hayti in Pemiscot County conducted by W. B. Baker and stole two razors and three pairs of hair clippers. He was convicted and his punishment assessed by the jury at two years ’ imprisonment in the State penitentiary. He has filed no brief in this court but his motion for new trial contains a number of assignments which we shall take up for consideration.

Baker,…