Manley v. State

HARPER, Judge.

Appellant was prosecuted and convicted of theft of property of more than $50 in value, and his punishme’nt assessed at seven years confinement in the State penitentiary.

There are many bills of exceptions in the record, but in his brief appellant presents but few of them, and we will discuss first those presented in the brief.

The first relates to the witness Dowdle Jackson being permitted tb give certain testimony and the failure of the court to limit it in his charge. This witness was a very material witness for the State, and testified to facts which would authorize the jury to…