Peeples v. State

The plaintiff in error, T. J. Peeples, who was convicted upon an indictment charging him with having received from Walter Bohannon stolen goods, knowing the same to have been stolen, complains of the overruling of his motion for a new trial. It contains many grounds. Some of them relate to questions which can hardly arise at the new trial which we shall grant, and others are not of sufficient importance to require special notice at our hands.

1. The accused relied largely in his defense upon proof of his previous good character, and called to the stand for the purpose of establishing the same…