Riley v. State

Beed, J.,

delivered the opinion of the court.-

Appellant was convicted of grand larceny, and sentenced to three years in the penitentiary. He was charged with stealing sixty dollars from J. W. Pope. The refusal of the trial court to give a peremptory instruction for defendant is assigned as error.

It appears that J. W. Pope left a pocketbook containing sixty dollars in currency and two dollars and fifty cents in silver on a desk in his store one morning. The next morning he missed the pocketbook. Appellant was in the. store after the pocketbook was left on the desk. It appears that several other…