Mearns v. Commonwealth

Opinion op the Court by

Judge Hurt

Reversing.

*214The appellant, John Mearns, was indicted in the Montgomery Circuit Court, and charged with the crime of grand larceny, alleged to have been committed by stealing more than twenty dollars in money from James Adams. He entered a plea of not guilty to the indictment, and upon a trial he was convicted and sentenced to an indeterminate term of from one to five years in the penitentiary. He filed grounds and moved the court to set aside the verdict and judgment, and to grant him a new trial, which motion was overruled.

The grounds relied upon by him for a…