Sanders v. State

The defendant was convicted of larceny of an automobile on two counts (1 and 3) of an indictment which contained nine counts. He was acquitted under the other counts. The indictment alleged that the defendant had been convicted of cow stealing and had servfed a felony sentence therefor. His motion for new trial was overruled and he excepted. We will first deal with the special grounds, in their order:

In ground 1 the defendant assigns error because the court unduly called the attention of the jury to the fact that the defendant had previously been convicted of cow stealing and had served a…