Wilson v. State

Plaintiff in error, Jim Wilson, was convicted in the Circuit Court of Okaloosa County, Florida, for a violation of Section 7383 C. G. L., and was sentenced to the State Penitentiary at hard labor for a period of four years, and on writ of error here seeks a reversal thereof in this Court. The lower court granted a motion for severance and the defendant was placed on trial alone. During the progress of the trial in the lower court, the defendant, while on the stand, denied that he at any time had ever taken or removed wire or other fencing from the land described in the indictment and had…